(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Hey everybody, how you doing? Well that's good. Welcome to PHLY Flyers, presented by mortgage CS. Check out mortgage CS.com/PHLY to start your home buying process today. Company and MLSID number 146476. Happy F around Friday to Dan Hilferdy and all who celebrate. My name is Bill Matts. I'm your director of fun and games for the afternoon, joining me today. Is Philadelphia's number one hockey beat reporter, Charlie? Oh, Connor, happy Friday to you, Chuck. Happy Friday to you too, Bill. You've certainly dressed the part. You know, I typically don't wear shorts on the show, but I figured you know what, it's Friday. We're going to do it. And it's, you know, a hundred. - Well, and especially given the fact that I think this is going to be a particularly fun show. It fits the vibe. I might not have worn a black t-shirt if I would have realized how fun the show was going to be. - You people asked for the dumb list of the best names in the upcoming draft, and you're going to get it today. - Hell yeah. - Charlie just told me before the show, he's almost finalized his top 50 list for the draft and it's a sincere draft board, a big board, if you will. And it's funny 'cause we were doing somewhat similar work to prepare for the show in the upcoming week ahead. But Charlie's, of course, was real work, actually racking the prospects. And I ranked how funny I find their names. So we have a top 15 coming up for you in today's show, but we are going to lead it off with some news and notes from around the league, and we'll see when we get to the list, you know? - It's F around Friday. We're gonna do what we always do. - Just gonna have a round. - Yeah, first thing I wanted to get to, we didn't yesterday was the Pierre-Luc Du Blot trade. He's going to DC, Chuck. I especially liked your comment on Twitter about it. Like, all right, I guess he could help them do what they did this year. (laughing) They can be the eight seed, basically. You know, what? I think, honestly, more than anything, LA, 'cause the timing of the trade was very funny to me. The series gets extended to a sixth game, the final. Of course, if it goes seven, LA would not have been able to buy out Pierre-Luc Du Blot at one third, it would have been the traditional two thirds. Like, the day he was born. - Because he turns 26, I think, the day of game seven. And so the buyout window wouldn't open up until after he was 26. - So funny. - If it was a sweep, they could have just bought him out and it's fine. - Yeah. - But now they're like, "Ah, shit." So they're able to trade him and move on from that, what appears to be horrible contracts. - I am blown away. - And the king's bombed this trade. Like, this is a terrible trade they did immediately. Not this trade, but the initial one to get Pierre-Luc Du Blot. Like, in retrospect, it looks terrible. - It really went poorly. - But I am shocked that they were able to get out of that contract. - I'm shocked. - No retention, just straight up one for one. - And like, yeah, Kemper is not the guy. - He's not good. - He's older. That contract is not a good contract either. It's not as potentially franchise crippling as the Du Blot contract. And I do give LA credit. Like, I give Rob Blake an LA credit in that, yes, that initial trade when they got Pierre-Luc Du Blot from Winnipeg, terrible trade. You fucked it up, you blew it. However, I respect that they accepted, they screwed up quickly. Rather than being like, well, some costs, you know, we gave up all that much, we got it, we got to figure out how to unlock him. Instead, it was, one year in, nah, this ain't gonna friggin' work. Let's cut bait while he still has at least some value. And I respect, 'cause I will always, I'll always say that you're never gonna have a GM who every single move they make is right. - No, you make mistakes. - They're gonna make mistakes. But the really good GMs have the, they have the humility to realize that they did make a mistake and then address it rather than convince themselves that no, that move was actually smart and it's all gonna work out if I just give it one more year. No, I give LA credit for saying, nah, that was dumb. We need to erase this as quickly as possible. Yeah, it's gonna make the initial trade probably look worse, but you know what would make that initial trade look even worse? If five years down the road, they're sending pure look to Wadd down to the AHL because he's barely a player. - We're putting him on waivers and no one's gonna grab him because eight and a half mil for a 40 point player is a shit ton of money. - Exactly, exactly. - You know, that's, I saw in the comments a couple of days, I see we have super chats already. - Oh, we got super chats. - We'll get to them. - Yeah, we'll do the whole show super chats, honestly. But I saw in the comments a couple of days ago when we were talking about Tolsky and someone was like, you can't have it both ways. You can't sit here and say, Caroline is one of the best run organizations and then be like, oh man, they're gonna just figure out a way to get out of this cock in the enemy contract 'cause it was a mistake. It's like, maybe it was, clearly. - Looks like it might have been. - If they figure a way out of it though, that's acknowledging, like no one's, no one bats a thousand. - Yeah. - It seriously can go real wrong. Like, I mean, I always look back to the Paul Holmgren tenure and it's like the first half man, he killed it. And then it went real wrong. And then they refused to acknowledge the mistakes they kept going. All right, yeah, Luke Shen, yeah, Nick Grossman. Yeah, like until it just became Andrew McDonald but it just became problem after problem to solve an initial thing that couldn't be solved. Like, we lost Chris Pronger. There ain't no replacing him. He's one of the best ever and the failure to recognize where you are as an organization. Like, the Kings, yeah, did this make them better? No, but they had a problem. And they have two problems. One, they're in a division with Conor McDavid. They keep running him into running into him in the playoffs and that goes poorly for them. And two, they're paying this dude who might not like hockey all that much a shit ton of money. We can fix one of these problems. We cannot fix Conor McDavid. We can fix paying this dude $8.5 million they did. - Well, I think two perfect examples of what happens when you make a mistake and then you double down on that mistake because you've decided that, well, it was a smart move and it doesn't matter what everyone has seen, it was still a smart move. You mentioned Andrew McDonald, he's one. You trade for Andrew McDonald on an expiring contract because you want to beef up the defense and you think this guy is not a first player defense him but he's a two, three and a lower role will do better. His underlying numbers in that initial burst with the Flyers were just as trash as they were in the major role with the Islanders. So what does Paul Hongrin do? He gives him a six year, $30 million contract. You're doubling down on what was already a mistake rather than realizing after watching him, there's no way this guy is worth that much money. Let's just accept that we probably overpay for a rental and it didn't work out whatever, fine. Another example, restless to line it. The initial trade, look, most of us knew that was a bad trade from the start. However, if you are Chuck Fletcher and you trade that much away for one restless line, then you spend the entire first season of him with the team. You have a chance to see him and you have a chance to see that he's not what you thought you bought because he's not that good. And then you signed him to the contract anyway. Like at some point, you have to accurately evaluate what you're seeing rather than convincing yourself that what you want to see is what's actually happening. - I've just actually had this thought. If they can trade Risto this off season, dope. - Yeah, cool. - Like that would be stupendous. - And he's been better since Torts took over. He's been better than I expected him to be. However, he's still not worth the contract they gave. - Absolutely not, not even close. But I'm walking, like a team just took on the PLD contract. Everyone needs big right handed defenseman. We have seen Risto Risto line and in his time with Buffalo, put up offensive numbers, mostly by playing on the PowerPoint. - That way Jack Eichl helps. - The Flyers have a trash power play no matter what. Put him up top and let's see if we can boost those numbers a little bit to see if he's a little bit more palatable to a trade partner. Why not? What's the power play gonna get worse? - I just, I don't know if he'd score on it. Like I don't know if it's gonna-- - He scores some time. - Would he? - Igor some rules? - What's the Flyers power play this year? - They never score. Igor Zaboula had like two weeks where he looked good. What if that's the first two weeks of the season? You know what, he just has that the first couple of weeks. - I guess I think you're overating the ability to Flyers power play to inflate anyone's numbers at all. - I'd say like foursters a little better, tip it's a little better. Morgan Frost is there from the day one and he's distributed, I don't know. I'm just trying to figure out a way out of this thing. Charlie, other teams are figuring out a way about bad contracts. We have a bunch and that's something, I guess, Proveral, but that wasn't so much a bad contract as it just was like, we can't keep this guy. - Yeah, this is-- - If the team doesn't like-- - This is like a toxic situation. - The team doesn't like the dude who pleased 25 minutes a night, we have to treat him. - All right, let's do this super chat, super chat. - These are both quick super chats. - Okay. - We got one from Gary B, happy Friday, everybody. I may have jumped the gun, but I bought a Mitch golf jersey. Yeah, Gary, good job, Gary. Hobie keeps the number 39 when he comes over. I think there's a good chance he does. I always think-- - It's a unique number if he can make his own. - Even if he doesn't, I don't love it, but it is kind of unique. I always think if you have that and then he changes it, that means you're in on the ground floor. Like if you have a 34 Cliff Lee jersey, that's sick. - Yeah, that's true. - I got the Gosta spare jersey right away and everyone was like, yo, he's not keeping 53. And then to his credit, he heard how many people bought his jersey and he was like, I don't know, in a pretty good year, I guess I'm keeping it. One thing like that too, and I would see this, not as so much anymore, 'cause obviously he's not on the team anymore. But during the height of the clawed career, once in a while, you would see someone with a number 56. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And you'd be like, you know what? - What was that from his team call up? - Yeah. - Oh my God, that was cool. - I respect it. - He almost scored in that shootout. That would have been something. - Okay, now we got one. Just this is just a reference to the PLD discussion from Steve. Funny thing I saw yesterday, Cap's bought Cap Friendly, so that no one would make fun of them for the PLD. I think that was Orgy-Trey. - I think that was Orgy-Trey. - I think that was Orgy-Trey. - I think that was Orgy-Trey. - I think that was Orgy-Trey. - Yeah, I think that was Orgy-Trey. - Yeah, friend of the pod, Ryan Gilbert. - Gilbert commented on me advertising the big list of names, and I think he's gonna be disappointed that someone didn't make it. But yeah, there's only so many. I just went through the whole draft guide, like three times to pick out the best possible names, and not everyone's gonna make it. But Orgy-Trey is, I wish I was as funny as him on Twitter. Like, I don't know how to be funny on Twitter. It's just something that alludes me. And Ryan's tremendous at it. And we have this last one here from Adam S. I feel like Toronto is ripe to get fleeced for Mitch Mourner. The flyer should do it somehow. - Adam, keep living in that world. - I, it's just like, I don't see a world where it makes sense to have TK and Mitch Mourner on the same team. I would love, like, if you could somehow make that happen, sure, I just, when I heard that they realize they, like, not some cadre, they were fucking mad at them. So they maybe got rid of them when they shouldn't have. And it's, they don't want to make the same mistake with Mitch Mourner, especially, like, in a year to Varis' contract. - I'm unconvinced they're actually gonna trade Mitch Mourner. - I'm not positive they are now. - I get the sense that this may have been, like, like the, the couple weeks after the Leafs' loss was, like, the bender, where, like, everybody just got Harry. - We're gonna blow it all up. Everybody's, like, shit face drunk saying they're gonna do all these crazy things. And then, like, after the week-long hangover, it was like, you know, he's a really good player, maybe. - Man, he's, like, just straighten him away for pennies on the dollar. - Yeah, especially now when everyone knows we're mad at him. Like, oh yeah, let's do it now. Like, all the leaks came out because everybody in the Toronto front office and organization, understandably, was pissed. So I was like, yeah, we gotta make changes. These, this crew just can't get it done. And now they're, like, thinking more logically and realizing, like, you know, we probably should just keep this. - If we can do a one-for-one that makes sense, sure. - Yeah. - But, like, I don't know, Mitch Morner's better than most guys in the league. - Like, he's real, real good at hockey. - Like, finding, finding someone that another team is willing to part with that is equal to Mitch Morner. Like, that could be difficult. - Could be tough. You're probably losing a Mitch Morner. - I have heard that trades are hard. - Trades are quite difficult, though. (laughing) - All right. - We do have one more quick word for Dylan. - Dylan, okay. - Now they're just fun one. Happy fucking Friday, PHLI sightings in Seattle City this weekend. I am not going to Seattle City this weekend. - I will not be down this weekend. We have a nice little schedule coming up for us Fourth of July week, where we're off the fourth. I mean, you were gonna be remote the fifth, and I'm gonna be down that whole week. - Okay, gotcha. - I'll be coming back and forth. - I'll be covering development camp that week. - There you go. - But, Charlie, working hard. - No, well, I mean, once you get past, like the midpoint in July, that's when I'll be doing some more sure visits. But, I do have two concerts this weekend. - Oh, who are you saying? - Tonight, seeing a bank called Future Islands, and then on Saturday, go to see something corporate. - Oh, that's excellent. - They're like doing a reunion tour. - I saw that definitely showed up in my bands in town. You might wanna go check out. - Yeah, all right. Yeah, yeah, let's do this last thing before we get to some reads, and then the big board. This rangers thing, how they got around the Barkley Goodrow, no trade clause, Charlie. I really respect it. - I find it, it's funny. I can understand why Gujur's pissed. - Oh, yeah. - 'Cause apparently the San Jose was on his no trade. - Yeah. - And it was such an end to round. - So, if he didn't stick, Chris Drewery puts Barkley Goodrow on waivers, so that the last place team can then claim him. Rather than trade him, we're not gonna be able to work out a trade. San Jose just needs to take on salary. - They have like 30, they're like 20 mil under the fucking, under the floor. - They view him as like a guy who can help them in their rebuild. - Yeah. - They view him as a character guy, however, I'm not sure how character he's gonna be going to a place he doesn't wanna go to. - He didn't being there. - Yeah, I mean, I guess he's been there. I'm sure he has woods there. But also, he's, he probably just feels betrayed by the rangers, which are there. - He just played in the final four, and now he's going to the last place team. - Like that stinks. - It was like, you know what? What I will say about that, it was a creative move, and was it, was it a dick move by Drury? Yeah, but you know what? Sometimes you'd have to be a little ruthless. - That's, I, sorry. - Obviously, he can't talk about other teams and stuff, but it's a division GM, it's his old teammate. I would love to know what Danny Breyer thinks about this move. - Yeah. - Like, I just go, I always think of those two as like a pair because going back to that summer, it was like, the flyers are getting won, and they chose right. - Yeah. - I just, I would love to know, because when I see something like this, I'm like, that's kind of dickish, and I wonder if that hurts you. Like it's the rangers, like they have two guys, like they're rebuilt ended because two star players were like, we're only going there. You know, so maybe it doesn't hurt them 'cause they're the rangers, they're, it's New York. - Yeah, like it's New York. - Yeah. - They actually play in New York and not the Meadowlands. - Yeah. - It might be a drill New York. - But it is actually New York. - Yeah, like it's actually New York. - But would that hurt a team's perception? Like would that hurt them? But also, I look at this and go, I would love for Danny to do something like that 'cause it's what Vegas would do. - Yeah. - Vegas is ruthless with their players, with their coaches, their general managers, their fucking ruthless man. Like they go to a Stanley Cup, what, their first year? And the whole front, the coach NGM are going by like, you're three, like, I think it's, that's what they would do. So always look at that framing, like, you do need to be a little ruthless, but there needs to be a balancing act. Like you really need to take care of your people if you're gonna treat others that way. - And I think there's an element to one of the reasons why the rangers can and I think will ultimately get away with this without too much blowback, is other like players and other GMs are gonna look at it and be like, was it kind of a dick move? Yeah, but like also the rangers are gunning for a cop. Like they need to make top decisions because they're on the cusp. And you know what, as like, as good as Goudreaux was from a scoring standpoint in the playoffs, he is not a very good player anymore. Even in the playoffs, while he was racking up the goals, his underlying numbers of five and five were pretty ghastly and they were pretty bad all year. Like he's not been good recently aside from that scoring surge in the playoffs. This was the right move for the team to find a way out of that contract because they're gonna need to spend real big on Shasterkins soon and they've got other guys that they need to sign back. You know, I think a lot from year is gonna need to raise at some point in the near future. They wanna go out and they probably wanna get more guys because guess what? They weren't good enough this year. They were real good, but they weren't good enough. So you wanna go out and get better players. One way to do that is to remove guys who aren't that good and I don't think Goudreaux really is anymore. So I think people from the outside are gonna look at it kind of the way we are. Where it's like, yeah, kind of a dick move, pretty ruthless, but also like when you're in that position where you're that close, you gotta make moves like that. If you wanna get over the top in comparison to say like the fliers right now. Like there's no benefit for Danny Breyer being a dick right now. Like why? No, and then I wonder like, what is a like, they would not do this to Cam Atkins. No, they wouldn't. Like that's the- Exactly. And there's no need to because like, they're not trying to contend. Yeah, because that was the rumor. San Jose interested in Atkins. They were clearly looking, San Jose was clearly looking for like a veteran good guy to put in that room. And if he's overpaid, we don't care because we have to get to the cat floor. Like this is one of those Utah situation, you know, coyote situations where it's like, we need to spend money on something. It would not shock me if Goudreaux was kind of the backup plan when the act of sitting fell for him. It seems as if those two things are somewhat related. It's funny you mentioned dick moves, Charlie, because are we going to the names? Yes, yes. Oh, no, no, this is, it's, it's man's skin. Oh, it's man's skin. (laughing) Ladies and gentlemen, it's my pleasure to announce that smooth sack summer is officially upon us. 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Get on board or get left behind. - Okay, Bill, I gotta ask you one thing. - Yeah, because I just, I'm curious if this is actually part of the read or if this was you riffing was the summertime in the trimmons easy. Is that part of the read? - That's in the read. That's the end of that. I didn't know if you were purposely referencing sublime or if that's actually in the read. - That's all the very little of that with me. Honestly, I toned it down a little bit for our readers, for our listeners because yeah, we have the people complaining about the language you use and I gotta say pubes three times. - Jesus. Is this a new super chat before Adam wants to talk a little bit more about Martyr. Martyr, as the most points is a leaf in the playoffs currently on their team and their fans and media still hate him and think it's his fault. Look, I mean, they're just mad and I get it. Like, they've had a really good team for close to a decade and they just can't get it done in the playoffs and they're just looking for people to yell at and Martyr gives them an opportunity to do so. It's basically what Sixers fans are going through. - Sure. And it's like, well, no one can possibly blame the guy who scored 69 goals. - Nice, nice. - Like, you weighed on Tavares and it's like his contract's up in a year. - Yeah. - Either tell him you need to take a massive pay cut or you're gone, bud. - Yeah. - And you probably need a goalie, but let's blame the high paid guys. I just, it's the same thing we went through here with Juru. And like, yeah, Juru needed to be better in a lot of the playoffs. But it's like, those teams weren't good. This team is good, but it's based solely on those dudes and then you get to the playoffs and everyone's good. - Yeah. - Like, I don't know, have a better third line. - Yeah. - I'm not saying Martyr's a perfect player. But he's clearly a very good player. - Yeah. - There's a reason why all the other team's fans are like, "Let's get Miss Martyr." - Yeah, can we get here? - Can we get Martyr? - You know you're gonna have to pay him in a year, like $13 million. - Yeah, all right, fine. - It's very funny though, when you look at the playoff numbers, it's like, he's all right. - Yeah, he does not. - Pretty, he's not dying here. - But it's always the, well, when does he score on that whole thing? - And he had that one game where like, he kind of slept walk through the first two periods. Then you had like, Nylander yelling at him on the bench. It was just like, that sort of thing sticks in your head as a fan. - That's, they look at him as allergic to contract, perimeter, contact, perimeter player, and nobody thinks that guy can win in the playoff. - Right. - So you wanna move on from him. - Right. - And honestly, fine, you know, I don't care. It's the Maple Leafs, good. All right, it is now time for the big board of names. This is a-- - Yeah, you're right. - I ranked 15 players. This is how I did the went through the elite prospects, draft guide, and just picked out the names that stood out to me for one reason or a number and ranked them one to 15. So let's get started on the board at number 15, elite prospects, 121st ranked prospect. He's a five foot seven forward from Anchorage, Alaska. It's Mack Swanson, and I just love this because it sounds like a hardened detective. Mack Swanson is on the case. Like, I could just see him ripping SIGs, drinking straight from the Jameson bottle, and you know, just can't quite get over this one crime he could never saw. - See, you know what my first thought when I see that is? I look at it, I'm like, this looks to me like a set up for, and it's always Sonya Philadelphia episode, where Mack decides he wants to pretend to be a hardened detective. - Maybe he changes his last name because he wants to like lean into the bit. - Maybe that's what I was picturing. - Honestly, if you say Mack, there's a good chance we're all just thinking about always Sony. But yeah, Mack Swanson just made me laugh because I could just picture like just a, a by the numbers cop show. - Okay, okay. - That was it. - I have not like, read up on Mack Swanson. It may have to do that. - He's ranked at 121 and I haven't watched any tape on him, but I agree, solid name. - And he's from Alaska, that's fun. Straight out of true detective. - Exactly, yeah. - All right, coming in at number 14, number 105 on the central scouting North American skaters list, right handed center from the queue. He's got a twin brother, ETN, Vincent Desjardins and the reason he was included on this list, not related to Eric, just happens to have the same last name. - It's not a like, that's like Smith up there. - It's not a rare name up there, really. - I just, I love the relation thing on elite prospects and it just leads you to like, oh, he's like twin brother. I was like, what about dad? - I remember, didn't Eric, he like had his shoulder surgery and then like fucked it up in the playoffs, having a catch with his kid. - Did he really? - I don't remember this. - I'm trying to think about how old that kid was. I'm like, no, he's probably like my age. - Yeah, probably. - There's no way. And so, yeah, Vincent Desjardins comes in at number 14, coming in at 13. This is just a fun one. Keats Fawcett. - All right, I wasn't totally on board visit Desjardins. Keats Fawcett, that is a great hockey man. - This is a great hockey man. - He's a great hockey man. - He also has a cousin, Tulsa Fawcett. - Tulsa Fawcett. - And this just has, is this WHO name? - Yes. - This has all of the makings of a, listen, I don't know if these guys are even ranked, they're just like on the prospect list and it's like after the first 140 or whatever on elite prospects. This, this named the NHL. - If the NHL doesn't work out for these guys, they have the makings of a tremendous bathroom remodeling show. The Fawcett cousins, come on, man. Like, this is just really, really good stuff here. I mean, Keats Fawcett, that's true. - Yeah, it actually rolls off the tongue quite well, too. - Keats Fawcett. - Yeah, like, if he becomes an NHL player, oh man, I want him on my team. I'd know nothing about his talent, but that name, A+. - I love it. And I like that it's spelled that like Fawcett that way, so it's more like the way you would say it. - Well, the same way that Farafossett spelled it, right? - Oh, yeah, look at that. - I think, yeah. - I wonder if they're related. All right, number 12, this one I just found funny. Central scouting's 104th ranked North American skater. Flyers just have to get this guy because his name is a combination of two Philly cold era. - Reese Hoskins. - Reese Hoskins. We got Reese Hoskins, we got Doug Peterson, we put him together and we have a, listen, a guy who's gonna come out of nowhere and maybe do something for us. - Maybe. - I don't have a problem with this. If they were to end up with the 146th ranked North American skater, why not have a dude with the perfect name for this city? - It does very much give off a Philly video game, automatic creative player option. - Absolutely, 'cause that would always be the best is when you get into your 30 of your NHL dynasty on EA Sports and they start combined, and you're suddenly drafting like, I don't know, Mario Gretzky. - Yes, exactly. No, just Reese Peter, it just really made me laugh, just perfect. Before we go any further, listen, man, we're talking about playing in that summer sun, maybe afterwards, you need to chill. It's hard, I know, I mean, we're making fun of people's names here today. It is all in good fun and I hope everyone on this list is able to take it for what it is and just chill. And when they choose to make that decision, there's no better way to celebrate chilling than with an ice cold course light. So whether you're freaking out about me making fun of your name, where you're gonna get drafted, whatever it might be, you need to find the Blue Mountains in your fridge and enjoy a beer as cold as the Rockies, because when everything surrounding your favorite hockey team is on fire, sometimes you just gotta chill. Make the most out of the times you choose to chill, choose course light, get course light delivered straight to your door, with Instacart, by going to courselight.com/phlyhockey, celebrate responsibly, course brewing company, Golden Colorado. All right, we left off at Reese Peterson. - Reese Peterson. - Tremendous. - Philly Creative Player. - This one at number 11, I would love if, I would just be great if the Flyers are somehow able to draft this player. - Yeah, he's one of my top guys on my-- - But there is some consternation about the exact pronunciation of his name. I saw someone asked you about it on Twitter the other day because you say booyam. That is the way all of the college announcer has pronounced it as booyam. - On the elite prospects pronunciation guide, it's Zeeve Booyam. And honestly, I just can't stop chanting it like Zeeve Booyam. Zeeve, Zeeve Booyam. I have no idea why, but he should probably be higher on this list just 'cause it's a unique name. - Yeah, so I think this name, number one, I believe the reason why there are just that discrepancies in terms of the way you pronounce name. I think this is like a very Hebrew name. I believe he's Jewish. And I think it just kind of comes down to how traditional you want to pronounce it. And my guess is that he probably, this has been the case with a lot of players where Proveroff, the way you're supposed to say his name is Proveroff, but when he-- - He's been here since he was 16. - Well, when he showed up, we asked him and he's like, "Okay, just call me Proveroff because that's what everybody calls me anyway. So let's just do it that way." - And he speaks better English than I do. - Yeah, exactly. - This Russian dude, so I would not be at all surprised if Booyam straight up told like his teammates and the commentators like, just say like this is easier for everybody. Second, like this is just a cool thing. - Oh, it's bad. - This is a really cool freakin' name. - No, it's just a really great one. And I just, I pronounce it, Booyam. Well, that's how I started until you said Booyam. If that's how they're pronouncing it on broadcast, I assume the broadcasters. - That's my guess. - Like I just think every vowel needs a syllable. So, Booyam would make sense. - Booyam, Booyam. - But either way. I mean, Zeeve is badass. - It's a really cool name. - And like on top of that, really fucking good player. - Yeah, he's in my top five. - Maybe paved the way for David Carl to become our coach in a couple of years. - Hey, I'm playing a long game here. - Let's get his brother too. It'll be great. Now we get into the top 10 with number 10. I don't know how, this might be a little low for him Swedish defenseman number 217 on the Keens list. - Eric Berger. - Now, it might be Berger. - Berger? - Berger, so the-- - Oh, the G same thing that we ran into with Jinning. - Yeah. - Where the like G sound in Swedish is not really a thing. - It's not a thing, yeah. - It's really yinning. So, it's probably like Berger probably in like close, like I'm probably screwing that up, but in general terms, however, like come on. - Also, it's not-- - It's got a Berger. - It's Eric with a C and not a K. So guess what guy? You get drafted to Philly, you're gonna be Berger. - Yeah. - That's just the way it's gonna be. - Yeah, it's great. - And I find it, the dude's name is Berger, and there's someone coming up on this list who might end up as the perfect teammate. - Berger. - Berger. - Berger. - I'm like, we're gonna have some condiments coming up soon. One of them would probably go well, but Eric Berger starts off the top 10. - I do love your-- - So, this is not someone, like Berger, I do not, or Berger, however, I haven't done any research in this guy, I'm not familiar with him, but your explanation of him being a heavy shot mobile D-man, like, yeah, that fits the name. - No, that's the, like, for marketing purposes. - That's the name. - I wanna see him, like, on a shirt shooting, but the puck is a Berger. - It's a Berger. - Yes, come on now. - It's gonna be so good. - Come on, like, this guy, you gotta be rooting for-- - Just serving up those good burgers. - Just serving up good burgers, man. Eric Goodberger, like, there's just so much that can be done here. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - He gets drafted. - It would be great for us. - Yes. - From a t-shirt standpoint, fantastic. - Yeah, 'cause that's, we're trying to move merch over here more than anything. - And who doesn't love just the dots over the you? That's cool looking for any name. - True. - And it happens to be Berger. All right, now we move on to number nine. A, this one is another, I just wanna, I love it for Philly purposes. We have a big hitting defensive stalwart who, B.U. commit, who scored over a point of gain in the USA shell and the development program. - I was, I was reading up on this guy last night. - Camille Bedneric, number 81 on Elite Prospects. When I hear-- - It's a cool name. - Defensive stalwart, big hitter. - He's a center, he's not a defensive. - He's not, where did I believe he's center? - Oh, he just plays great defense. - No, he's like a shut down center. - Shut down center, that's what I'm getting at. Anyway, defensive stalwart, who put up over a point of game in the USA shell, seems to me like he's a two way player, like another Bedneric in this town. We got concrete Camille right here. - Oh, I like that. - We have to get this dude. - I like that. - Come on now, concrete. - I'm really concrete Camille, I think it works perfectly. I didn't, I couldn't find if they are somewhere related down the line. - I cannot imagine. - But he's like 140, so. - It would not shock me. Like this Bedneric is the first guy, I think, on this list. And I guess it's possible some of these guys that are in the hundreds, maybe, because I don't know, but like Bedneric's a guy where I could plausibly see the flyers taking him in the third or fourth round because he's a center. They, Danny Straight-Up said yesterday openly, "We need centers." And, well, I think the most likely scenario for Bedneric is that he's probably a 4C. There are some scouts that think higher of his upside, that think there's more offense there, and maybe he's a guy you could nab in the third or fourth round and think, "Hey, maybe he could be a Middlesic center for us "for five years down the road." I'm not saying that like, I think they're definitely targeting him. I'm just saying that he fits things they tend to like and he does fit the big organizational need they have going into the draft and he's not somebody they're going to have to spend a first or even necessarily a second or a thick to get. But Bad-S name. - And we did like, Danny did also say yesterday that later in the draft, third round, maybe, is where it's like, "Okay, we need to focus "on an organizational need more so than talent," where Bedneric might be there. - And it could work out. - And we know they love their two way forwards. - Sure do. - They love those guys. - For physicality. - They love that too. - I would love if they were to end up with concrete Camille. That would be tremendous. Coming in at number eight, this one. I'm just happy that this guy was able to tear himself away from the yacht long enough to get really good at hockey. Parker Von Richter. - Parker Von Richter. - No relation to Mike Richter. Elite Prospect's number 129 prospect. He's a six foot one, right handed defenseman. And this one made me laugh because a couple of years ahead of me, I have this friend, Nick, who at graduation, he thought he played this hilarious prank on everybody. For his name, he put Nicholas Von Casar, which his middle name is not Von. His name is just Nick Casar, which, and he just put that right in the middle and everyone laughed. He thought he had the prank of graduation, and then my other friend had a plane with a banner that said, "Here's to the memories, keep circling over." And no one could hear over it, and that was very funny. But whenever I see Von, I think Nick Von Casar, which Parker Von Richter, though, that's like the air of a fucking country club. - Yes, my first instinct seeing this name is this is a random side character in a CW drama. Because the writers are trying to think, what is the most stereotypical douchebag rich guy name we can think of? And they stumble upon Parker Von Richter. - Parker Von Richter is one of the doucheous, and I have no idea if this guy's a good guy or not. - I'm sure he's a very, very nice boy. - I'm sure he's a fine young man, but the name. Also, he's a draft eligible NHL prospect, so he could be an asshole. - True, it's possible. - I would be if I was him, but Parker Von Richter, I mean, that's just funny stuff. All right, so now we get to where we're number seven. You know, we go from Parker Von Richter. - This is the most amazing name. - To maybe the funniest name on the list. - But this is so good. - Just really underrated. Two first names, Colin Rauff. - Colin Rauff. - Colin Rauff. - It's fantastic. - If my last name was Rauff, I would go out of my way to like name my kids something a little more intricate than Colin. Like maybe they have a very funny middle name, but Colin Rauff with the two first names. - Rauff is just a funny name. - That's a funny name. - It's funny if it's the first name. It's funny if it's the last name. It's just a funny name. - Whenever I make up a name for a random character, I'm like, oh yeah, fucking Rauff over here. Like I just find it funny. Colin Rauff, last name, two first. He's a six foot four, 209 pound defenseman. Number 70 on all these prospects. - Who is a Minnesota press kid? - Minnesota press kid. - Fred Flair might have his eye on it. - You never know, they love their high school kids. Colin Rauff comes in at number seven, and then we get to one of my favorites on this list. Six foot two Swedish defenseman elite prospects. Number 117, Vigo the Carpathian Gustafson, I mean, come on now, you gotta give me my Ghostbusters references here, Danny. Get me Vigo the Carpathian. That's just, you don't meet too many Vigos out there. - Dude, I mean, I have no idea what he looks like. But if this guy does not grow out a massive mountain man, Swedish beard, like you are missing out. He just, he seems like it's the name of someone who is just going to like, storm in and like, you know, and in like, we're talking like Viking style warfare shit. Like he needs to grow out a massive mountain man beard and just lean into it. Maybe even funnier than this. - There is a draft eligible goalie in 2025. Exact same name, Vigo Gustafson. - You know what, the Vigo Gustafson name really makes me think of? And I know that you watch these at least occasionally because they were always on ESPN when we were kids. This seems like a name of someone who would be in the metrics world's strongest man competition. - Oh yeah. - Like that is a fucking world's strongest man. - No, this dude, Vigo Gustafson, if he's flippin' tires. - You can't win a keg toss. You have not lived up to your name. And we are like Gustafson, come on. We have a very, very special relationship with that last name, the one who got away and then a dude with the exact same name who probably should have played a little more. But you know, why have a guy who can score when you can have worse players? - There he is. - No, I just, I didn't-- - Get that, I'm envisioning Vigo lifting up trucks and flipping tires. Like, I just, that is what he is destined to do. And he's a big Swedish guy, so he very well could do that because Swedish people tend to be, you know, fairly strong. - They typically are. - Typical. - If you want to make strong financial decisions, I don't know. We're talking about true mark financial now. 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It's gonna be tough. - It's really good. - It's gonna be tough to top that one, but I think the thing about the top five here is we have a lot of dudes who could go in the top five, 10 of the actual draft. - Top of this draft is very great name. - Oh yeah. And we left out, 'cause after we get done the list, I wanna talk through some of the guys who, I don't know if I necessarily would put on the list, but I also think are legitimately good names. I'm mildly surprised this guy is this high. I think it's a great, great hockey game. It's on the same level as like Boo-yo, where it's not funny. It's just a great freaking hockey. - No, number five, Consta Hellenius. - It's a great name. - This is either an artsy metal singer, like he's got the all black metal look, but like he writes the best poetry you've ever heard. - It's like a post-punk guy. - Yeah, yeah. - Or he's like a account of Transylvania in the 1800s. Like that's what I hear when-- - Thanks, so it is. - Consta, yeah, like he gets announced when he enters rooms. Some, there's a trumpet, someone announces Consta Hellenius. - I guess so, if the fliers take him at 12, they could do a lot worse. - Yeah, he's all pick. I mean, I wouldn't be angry about it. - He's not your guy. - Not my guy, but I like him. He might be the best available at that time. - Could be, could be. Very, very good hockey name. It's, again, it falls into the same category as Booyam, where it's like-- - Just cool name. That's a great for your name. - Hellenius is just fun to say. When I heard you, I was like, "That's probably how it's pronounced." And then when we actually started talking about prospects and you said it that way, I was like, "Oh, good." - Sure. - That is how you say it. Awesome. Number four, la, la, la, Luchenko is a jet. We got Jet Luchenko coming in at number four. This one has one, it's a great name, two. The fact that he lives up to it. - Yeah, the fact that-- - The skating is his best trait. Like, his top trait is speed. - Yes. - If your parents name you jet, like, you just have to do it. You have to, like, you have to be doing the, was it Jerry Rice who would run sprints with a parachute on his back, like to work on his speed? Like, that's-- - And he caught bricks. - Yeah, like, you have-- - Traits was nuts. - Yeah. But you just have to be working on your speed more than anything else. Jet Luchenko, number four, that's-- Where would he, where do you see him falling in the draft? - I think I have him on my board. I have him somewhere in, like, the 17, 18, 19 range. - He's in that. - I think, I think he probably goes before 20. - Okay. - But after-- - That little middle range before 20 where it's like, the flyers might think it's the same, but everyone else thinks there's a difference between 14 and 90. - Yes. I, that's my guess. It seems like his stock is up. Teams like the fact that they think he might be able to stick at center. They obviously like the speed. He, I believe, if I remember correctly, and my head's kind of spinning with us, if I remember correctly, he had a good under 18 as well. So that caught the eyes of people as well. I like Jet Luchenko. I, he's another one of those guys where had the flyers made the playoffs and got torched in the first round, and they ended up picking like 17 or 18. He'd be a guy I'd very much be interested in in Michael H. - This next one, we're into the top three now, and it's, it's, listen, we have some tremendous competition for these final three. It's gonna be tough to beat this guy. Six foot one, defenseman with dual citizenship in Russia and Switzerland. Elite Prospects number 113, Thrank Skater. Denil, you stink-offs! You stink-offs! - You stink-offs! - It just, this one is funny for a number of reasons. I want him on the Panzer devil so bad. I want to yell you stink-off at this guy so, so much. It's also funny that it seems like the best zone of his game is the neutral zone, which makes sense, he's Swiss. - Yeah, they, they do like to be still neutral. - Yeah. - You stink-offs! - You stink-offs! - Yelling that it dudes is so much fun. And he can yell his name at the goalie when he scores on. - Stink-off! - It's also a great taunt. That's, it reminds me of when Tom Sestito had that two-goal game, and Briz was like, okay, he's a sniper now, he's Sestito-off. - That's good. - You just add that, you just add the cough to the end, the ob to the end of you stink, boom. - So, so here's my, my master plan here in the midarounds. So you draft Daniel Ustinkoff, who's a right shooting, or a left shooting, defensement. And you pair him with the right shot, Dominic Badinka. - Badinka-off and Badinka. - Badinka was an absolute honorary mention on this list. Didn't quite make it, had to fit in some guys bad, one guy's thing. - Yes. - It's the perfect pair. - Bad, it's, it's, it's sick. - They are a perfect combination. This number two coming up now, you all know I love this name, he's one of the players I hope this team drafts. Ava told me not to call him this, but when I hear the name Carter Yakumchuk, I think sexy lumberjack. - Sexy lumberjack. - Like, who's the dude? He like hosted the awards a couple years ago. He was on like True Blood and all those shows. - Oh, I know you're talking about it, I don't know. - The big, girly guy, who ever thinks is sexy. - Yeah, I forget his name. - I picture him in a flannel, and that's Carter Yakumchuk. - That's Carter Yakumchuk. - Yes. - Okay, I'm envisioning Carter Yakumchuk. And this is, I know what Carter Yakumchuk looks like, but it's, so it's, he doesn't look anything like this guy, but I'm envisioning, you know the, and I maybe I shouldn't bring this up because they are a competitor, of course, light, you know, like chill, but you know the guy in the Bushbier commercials? - Oh, yes. - Yeah, like that's what I envisioning Carter Yakumchuk. - That's Carter Yak, absolutely. - Just like completely ripped, and with a super deep voice, like that's just, is Yakumchuk. It's just, it's such a great hockey name. It rolls off the tongue. It almost sounds like when you say it, it sounds like he's crushing someone into the boards. - Yes. - It's great. - No, it's, I can just Yakumchuk, like, just staple in someone to the boards. It's why I want him, honestly. The high-end offensive upside is secondary. - It's not a bonus, actually. - It is secondary. When you told me he's big and physical, it takes a lot of dumb penalties. - Yeah. - That's what I want. - That's what I want. - Straight to your heart. - And now we get to number one. I only wish he was a defenseman so we could partner him with Eric Berger. - There's just no beating John Mustard. - It's fucking hilarious. - It's so good. - John Mustard. - John Mustard, like, the ultimate, like, non-descript first name, and then, - Mustard. - It's maybe the simplest name on the list, and that's what makes it so perfect. - It's so perfect. - John Mustard comes in at number one. - And it's so perfect. - Number one hockey. - Yeah. - Because the puns about having so much mustard on that shot. - So much mustard on that shot. - Like, it's just, they'll never get old. - Yeah, man. - And the great thing is, is just like Jet Luchenko. Like, Jet Luchenko, great first name, and he's fast. John Mustard, great last name, and he's a goal scorer. Like, if he hits, he's going to score a ton of goals. We'll just give us so many opportunities to talk about how much mustard he had on the shot. - So, like, coming up with, like, freaking, what's the yellow one? Hellman's now. What's yellow, mustard? - Oh, French's? - Yeah, French's. - French's. - You do the deli mustard, grapeoo pond. There's just so many things that you can, just so many shirt ideas with John Mustard. But this is our, the top 15, Bill's Big Board of draft names for F Around Friday. We go Max Swanson, Vincent Desjardins, Heath's Faucet, Reese Peterson, Zeev Buoyam, Eric Berger. That's what we're going to call him here. Concrete Camille Bednaric, Parker von Richter, Colin Ralph, Viggo the Carpathian, Gustafson, Consta Helanius, Jet Luchenko, Danil Eustinkov, Carter Yakumchuk, and John Mustard. This are the, to me, the 15 best names in this draft. - Yeah, they're all real good. Trying to think of what other ones I think are also very good. I think Zane Parek, another one of those like legitimately cool hockey names, that's a cool one. I would put- - It's very, it was an honorable mention. Definitely was on my initial list. - I actually like, I like Beckett Seneca too. I think that's a cool name. It just, it, it snaps when you say it. It just has that like, oh yeah, he's cool. So dig that one. I'm also, I'm always going to be partial to the, the double letter ones. You know, same, same letter starting the first name and the last name, so you got, you know, a guy like Ryder Richie, E.J. Emery. Those are- - Ryder Richie, good hockey names. - Ryder Richie was like in the class with Parker von Richter, and I was like, these are just like hockey names. Like, Ryder Richie, my, my line was just going to be like, he has no other options. He was destined to play hockey, and this is it. Like his parents named him. The only thing close to Ryder Richie I can think of is, it's funny because he ended up being a football player, and I can only imagine how disappointed his parents were. Easton stick. Like they named him after fucking equipment, and he ended up playing football. God drafted, and I bet his parents were like, we're a little disappointed you didn't play hockey, son. But yeah, Ryder Richie was definitely up there. - And Henry Muse is a good name. - Muse, just because for, that was the one, Orgy Tree, Ryan Gilbert said I should have on the list. And I wanted to do it for Jason Muse. We could have all the J and Son of Bob jokes. They just didn't quite make my top 50. - Yeah. That might be it for me. I also personally, I just think it's a, it's such a unique name. I dig a Mikael Brandsei Neigard. - Honestly, if I had a better chance of pronouncing that one, it could have made it. - Yeah. - I love a hyphen. - Love a hyphen name. - I wanna see, I mean, I guess with fanatics taking over the jerseys, they'll be able to fit it on the back, no problem. - That's true. - But I wanna see them fit that on the back of a jersey with like a normal font. - Yeah. - It'll have to be all like the size of the E in the Claire. That's what it would have to be across the whole jersey. - But yeah, I think that might be it for one. - Not as many funny ones as I thought. - Miguel Marquez is another writer-rich-y type double, a double letter name, which is solid. - And then like, I mean-- - Just a hockey player named Miguel Marquez is pretty cool. - And honestly, like, I know we kind of forget about it because, and I've said this before on the show, because he's just like, he's not new to us, we know him. - Macklin Celebrini is a great name. - It's fucking great. - It's a great freaking name. - He wins a cup or something. The Celebrini is on. Like, there's so much you can do with that. - Yeah, it's a really cool name. - Yeah, like, they're Celebrini-ing in San Jose right now. - Hell yeah. - They have been since since the lottery. - Since the lottery. - Exactly. - Like, I feel like we don't, if Celebrini was, if he was a fourth round prospect that no one heard of, he probably makes this list 'cause like, man, that's a cool name. Instead, because we've been hearing about it for four years, like, we're kind of used to it. But it is objectively a really cool name. - Yeah, like, Connor Bredard, that's just, that's very much a-- - It's pretty nondescript. - That's a slap together two names in NHL. - Yeah, it's nondescript. - Like, Macklin Celebrini, that's something. - Like, that's-- - Exactly. - That's a really good one. But that's the top 15. I see we have a super chat here. What do we have here? - From my old Firebirds days, there's a player, Guido Tenessi, Tennessee. That's a good one. That's a good one. - Sure, sure. - Okay. - Kelly just went, okay. All right, so that's the top 15 here. Just a couple minutes left here on F Around Friday. And Charlie, I found something very funny on the athletic I wanted to close the show with. - Okay. - They ranked each team based on current center quality. The quality of the center position at the NHL level. The Fire somehow did not finish 32nd. They were ranked 27th in the athletic, ahead of the Bruins. The, I almost said Utah Jazz, but Utah team. - Utah team. - The Sharks, the Blue Jackets, and the Ducks. I think it's very funny that the Ducks are last and we're looking to acquire one of their centers. - Yeah, but the thing is though, like-- - But it's based on like right now or not three years ago. - I would much rather have the Utah hockey team and the Anaheim Ducks center situation than the Flyer Center situation because you look at Utah, they've got Logan Cooley. I mean, they have guys. And then you look at Anaheim, they have Leo Carl's. - And Mason McTavish. - And Mason McTavish. And I guess maybe Carter Gautier if you think he's a center. - Nah. - Just saying. - Goal scoring win. - And Zegres right now. - And Trevor Zegres at the current time. - Yeah, I mean, they might not be on the team if it comes September, but right now they haven't. - When he wasn't even included, I was like, but there are people who don't think he's like a center. But the Flyer's one is like, they have some okay depth. And they list like Noah Cates and Scott Lawton. So it was like-- - They have a lot of guys who can play. - Yeah. - Are they actually centers? - Well, no. - Like I think Lawton and Cates are both better on the way. - They are wingers who know how to take face offs. - Pailing is a center. It's just, I don't think he's anything more than a really good four points. - Oh, he's a nice four six. - Really good four points. - Happy with him in that role. - But between like, you know, there are two lines that need to be filled and it's a top two. - Yeah. - I guess like Morgan Frost is a two-seater. - I don't know. - And honestly, they are pretty, they're pretty generous 'cause they view both of Sean Gatorre and Morgan Frost in this. - Second line, second line, second line. - I don't know if most Flyer's fans would agree with that. - And having the Bruins, I know we look at the Bruins center depth and go like eh, it's not as if they didn't perform. Like we just don't think particularly highly of those players. - It's true. - But they did have a damn good season. - And you have, I mean, my bias is that it's the wingers and the defense. - Sure. - And then obviously the goal is make everybody look better but the centers are being carried the same way that Vegas used to do it before they got Eichl. Where it was like, oh yeah, Chandler Stevenson is a 1C. Like, no, he's not. But I guess when you have like-- - But Mark Stone. - Yeah, so Mark Stone is if he played center would get Selky votes every year. But since wingers aren't allowed to win the Selky, it's like, well, but it's like he basically is, he does the thing center do except he doesn't take face offs which, who gives a shit. - I do think that rating might be a little generous to the Flyers. - I thought so as well. - And I guess one of the things that the Flyers benefit from there is that it's not judging them on their prospects 'cause the Flyers have basically no center prospects. - Zero. - Yeah, they have none. - Yeah, they have, at least they have none who viably project as potential top six guys. - Top six guys, yeah. - They have some guys-- - We will-- - We will be fourth-liners. - We will talk about maybe. - McLachlan and Knubel yesterday and sure, but it just seems as if they are repeats of what we already have. - Correct. - Like, yeah, we have Pailin and Lawton though. - Yeah. - We have no acates. - Exactly, exactly. - We have these dudes already and our prospects are more of the same. - Which is why someone like Consulonius or Berkeley-Cadden, quite attractive as possible. - Charlie, before we get out of here, I remember our draft party. - Yes. - Friday, June 28th at South Philly Chickies and Pete's come on out. It's gonna be at the bookbinder's bar in the back of Chickies. It's always a great time at Chickies. - We'll have it up on the website in the next day or so and then you can formally RSVP but-- - You don't have RSVP, just show up. Just show up honestly. - We want a good crowd. - RSVP or don't, I know they like you too here. It's the same as the BSH draft party every year though. Just show up, man. It's gonna be an awesome time. There's gonna be pizza, there's gonna be fries, drink specials. Kelly's got all the details. Make sure, you know, Kelly will tell people about it but the party is Friday, June 28th, one week from today at South Philly Chickies. Make sure you are with us. It's gonna be a great time. But Chuck, when I get here today, it's normally I go over to the couch, I start doing stuff. One by one, people just start coming over. - So we traded into the top 10. We traded up. - People are getting excited. The idea, like the quotes that came out from Danny yesterday. And when you look at the full context, he's like, we'll do anything, you know? People are excited that maybe even though they didn't tank, flyers might have two top 12 picks. - So lookin' exciting. - Two top 12 picks I'll say. - I mean, I feel like the assumption with that auto rumor is that they would trade up from 12 to seven. Not that they would trade something for seven. - We'll see. - Okay. - They want roster players. What the fuck do they want with 12? - Just saying. - Okay. - He's Scott Lawton. Maybe a little extra. You want to travel Sandheim? You don't have enough mid-years of it. - He's got a no trade clause, Bill. (blows raspberry) - Just put him on waivers. (laughs) - Oh my God. - That's the way out of these things now. If they waved, if they waved right now, Risto, would he get claimed? - That's an interesting question. - I don't know. I don't know. - I think he might. - There's an appetite he might. I would think if you have to give up nothing but cash to him, just to claim, I think maybe you would. But also, I don't see an organization run by Keith Jones just waving. - Yeah, I don't see that. - Honestly, you could probably get something for him in a trade at some point. We'll see. All right, but that is all the time we have for you on PH.L.Y. Flyers today. Make sure you come to the draft party, June 28th, South Philly Chickies Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, one week from today. It's going to be awesome. We're doing the live show. Kelly's going to be there. JP's going to be there. I would say Charlie's going to join us via remote, but there's no way to make that happen. That's going to be a shit show down at the sphere. Charlie will be at the sphere, but the rest of us will be down at South Philly Chickies. All right, that's all the time we have for you on F&R on Friday. Thank you all for listening. Thank for hanging out. Is that a final super chat? Is that no? - Adam just wants them to put on put packets in a waivers and see. I don't think they'll do it. - They don't want to do that too. - Yeah, there's a lot of mutual respect there. - If the team was in a different spot. - Yeah, okay. But they have respect for Cam Atkinson and organizationally, they're not in a place to fuck with dudes, I think, especially after the cut or go chase situation. - Personally, that's what I think. But when they're good, be as cutthroat as possible, Danny. Game of Thrones shit here is what I want to see. All right, make sure you're following us on YouTube. Never miss a live show. Hit that reminder. Follow us on Twitter @PHLY_Flires and follow the podcast wherever you get those search PHLY_Flires. My name is Bill Matts. That's Charlie O'Connor. Stay loose and sexy, Philly. (upbeat music) ♪ We all sitting like the mayor ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) You You
