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Alex Goligoski Calls It A Career & Guessing The PWHL Team Names

Former Coyote Alex Goligoski retired from the NHL this week after a 17-year career. Petey and Leah reflect on his time in Arizona, the role he played in Jakob Chychrun’s development and how his signing happened. Plus, PWHL team names are expected to be announced next week, and the hints are interesting… It’s a Friday Funday edition of the PHNX Hockey Podcast!

Duration:
38m
Broadcast on:
06 Sep 2024
Audio Format:
mp3

Former Coyote Alex Goligoski retired from the NHL this week after a 17-year career. Petey and Leah reflect on his time in Arizona, the role he played in Jakob Chychrun’s development and how his signing happened. Plus, PWHL team names are expected to be announced next week, and the hints are interesting… It’s a Friday Funday edition of the PHNX Hockey Podcast!

 

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But for those who have followed my journey in my home, today is a very significant date on the calendar. Today, as we speak right this very second, the last contractor is in my house. Wow. The plumber is here getting all my plumbing hooked back up. And then there are no more people coming in my house than it's all up to me and my wife to get everything in order. This is the day. This is a huge day. This has been a long time coming. I feel I never thought we'd get here. It's a long journey. I can't wait. And as you can see from the before and after pictures, I'm showing right now it's too bad. This is an-- oh, look at that. Isn't that-- no, I'm just kidding. There's no-- I'm not showing them. It's an audio showing. Yeah, it's a really good day. I'm just painting some boards that are going to go around my mirror. I'm going to frame my own mirrors, because I think it looks really cool. And then I can get back to living some very, very, very excited on this Friday. Well, good. We'll keep the good vibes going. We're going to have fun today. It's Friday, Friday, Monday. We'll talk about some PWHL names. And we're going to talk some NHL news to start. And starting off, we had a couple retirement announcements this week in the NHL. Notably, though, Alex Gologoski announced his retirement after a 17-year NHL career. Of course, he played 362 games with the Arizona Coyotes, but he played over 1,000 games in the league with Pittsburgh, Dallas, the Coyotes, and the Wild. A really significant career from the defenseman. He's 39 years old. And in his career with 475 points, 87 goals, 388 assists. PDU had the opportunity to get to know him well, obviously, with his time in Arizona. You were part of the coaching staff. What are your thoughts on? The goose, right? Goose, that's his nickname? It is the goose. It's funny, because he was a guy that his time here. He'd established himself as a veteran NHL defenseman. It was something that team needed at that time from 2016 through 2021. And you look at one of the one of the defenseman that he kind of put under his wing and nurtured his way through into his start of his NHL career was Jacob Chickron. I mean, you go back and look through the amount of games that those two were paired together. Golgoski on the right and Chickron on the left. That's some of the best hockey. Not only some of the best hockey that Jacob Chickron played, but it's some of the best hockey that Alex Golgoski played. I think it was because he had a role. He had a purpose here with Arizona. His responsibility was to get Chickron the puck and to make sure he defended for Chickron. And one thing Golgoski was kind of unheralded for and didn't get enough credit for was he could skate. And his ability to get back into the play and defend the rush and read the rush. Very smart defenseman. And he was able to help a young defenseman that was finding his way. And maybe didn't have those reads down. Golgoski was bailing him out. And I think it might have gone unnoticed to a lot of hockey fans, but his details of the games were elite. And it was fun to see him get that excitement and juice back in the game too, when he got to be paired with Chickron. So it was a really important time for him here with the Arizona Coyotes. - Yeah, he, I mean, like I said, he played 362 games here. 28 goals, 124 assists for 152 points. Didn't read off, didn't write down his plus minus because you know. - No, we skipped that. But he got to keep in mind. His plus minus, to keep in mind, he's a guy that would have ended up having to play against some of the top players every night. And these teams from 2016 to 2020 for the Arizona Coyotes were not very good. So his plus minus is not indicative of the kind of player that Alex Gologoski was or what he contributed to the leadership of this group or what he meant for this team off of the ice. He is such a quiet, good guy. And yeah, I don't know, did we say where he's from? - No, we didn't. - We didn't mention this. - How do you bring that up? - I'm pretty sure he's from Minnesota. And not only is he from Minnesota, Leah, he's from Northern Minnesota. He's from Grand Rapids, the Iron Range, from the from the Northeast corner, kind of where the arrowhead is, when you look at the state of Minnesota, he's in that upper North arrowhead area and Grand Rapids. So, you know, went to the University of Minnesota, he got the opportunity to finish his career in Minnesota. And I think that was very special for him. I know how much he, you know, he always went back to Minnesota in the summer times, even when he was playing here. Minnesota was, as you've heard me say, Minnesota's just kind of gravitate back home. Hopefully I don't 'cause it's really cold, but it was a great opportunity for him to finish his career in Minnesota. And I think that was special. And he's gonna make his home in Minnesota, and he's gonna raise his kids in Minnesota. So, I'm really happy his career ended this way. But I got to tell a story, it's a story I've told before, and also I'll kind of change the direction of it, but when he came to become an Arizona Coyotes, the Arizona Coyotes traded for his rights just before the deadline of free agency. And so, they had his rights and they had to sign him. So, it was on the way to the draft. And one of the owners in that conglomerate of Canadian owners, when we had that big ownership group from Canada, one of them we had a private jet. And I will luckily got to this little next to Dave Tippett. And we flew in a private jet and we landed in the Minneapolis sample airport. And they went to wine and dine, Alex Galagoski. And it was, hey, we wanna show you how important it is. We're gonna fly in, I'm bringing our head coach, we're bringing our owner, our general manager, we're all gonna go to your house. But they did not plan on what to do with PD and the travel guy Bronco at the time. So, we had to kill three hours and not have any plan or a car or anything. So, that was fun. But days later, they flew Alex Galagoski out on that private jet when the draft was over, they picked him up and went back on the jet and he and his wife and they pulled him into, then he'll arrive with no ice, but they pulled the car right up into the ramp and pulled right up to where ice would be. And through the Zamboni, they didn't pull them out of the ice and they had Alex Galagoski highlights running on the big screen and they had his name and number on the ribbon going around and it was impressive. And I know that's the norm, like when you're recruiting a college athlete now and that's how you court free agents, but that's something Arizona Coyotes never did very well. They were always a little bit behind and they didn't roll out the red carpet. They did for Alex Galagoski, it was that important that Dave Tippett get him on his team. Dave Tippett really thought highly about Alex Galagoski and how important he was to this franchise at that time. Again, because of some of the young defense, even all of it was still relatively young at that time. And so you needed that veteran presence around. So that's how important he was to getting him into this franchise. - Yeah, also just what a career overall for him, being an American defense man, he's kind of one of those guys you look to when you think about just all around like just American guys and League and to play over a thousand games is something that it seems like it's common 'cause it's been happening lately, but it's not. I mean, there's such a small list of people who've played a thousand NHL games and Goose is one of those guys. So congrats to him on a great career, just always kind of that reliable guy. And he played in some, you know, all US markets, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Arizona, Minnesota. So great career for him and wishing him the best. And what do you first see him doing next potentially? - There's no way you stand away from hockey. I know he's got kids and he'll get, he'll spend a lot of time with his family right now and this season and he's gonna get the itch. And I see him being a guy that's gonna get involved in coaching, I see that the path for him. Now that doesn't mean he's gonna jump into the Minnesota wild and be a coach. I could see him, I could see him being a guy that coaches a high school team or coaches a kids team. I just, I think he loves the game too much and he's in an area where the game is too important to the people around him that there's no possible way he's gonna stay out of the game. I don't believe it. He's going to be involved at some level somewhere maybe. Maybe he'll help out the University of Minnesota. He's all the matter, but we'll see. I know he's a guy that's gonna get involved in hockey and he's intelligent, he's articulate, knows the game extremely well. I think he'd be an outstanding teacher. I think he would be an asset to any program from kids all the way up to the NHL. So I know he'll find his way back into the NHL when he's ready. - Another retirement in the league, Mark Stahl. I feel like the stalls are slowly starting to retire here. He retired as well this week, also played 17 seasons and he already announced what's next for him. He's joining the Rangers as a player development assistant but Mark Stahl talk about another. I mean, the only one of his brothers to be a defenseman rather than a forward kind of a staple for years in the league. It's just crazy. It feels like that era, like the Gologoski, the stalls and soon, unfortunately, like the Crosby and Ambechkin that whole era, they're starting to come to their later years and they're starting to retire. Mark Stahl's 37, Gologoski's 39. It's just, it's the new era. For me, maybe it's that way for me because these are the group that I grew up watching. Like this is my first, the guys that I watched first when I was getting into hockey and now they're all getting older and retiring and now it's like Austin Matthews, Connor Badard, Connor McDavid, and that feels more new age to me. So I'm, maybe it's just a me thing but I'm having kind of like a, oh my God, what is happening moment? But congrats. - Yeah, it's funny. - He was born in '87. I was already out of high school. He was drafted in 2005. I had already been working in the league for eight years. That's when he was drafted in. You look at him now and you go, "Oh, he's old." And you're like, "Oh my gosh." - He's not. - He was such a kid. Like he was such a kid. And one thing, you know, Mark Stahl, and you look at his career and it drafted by the Rangers back in 2005 in the first round, first NHL season is 2007, eight. And you look at his numbers. And Mark Stahl is not an offensive guy. And he's not a guy that's gonna, to put up numbers and you're not gonna see him on the score sheet and you're not gonna go, "Oh wow, what a prolific offensive." It's not him. That's not who he was. That's not the asset that he provided to all these teams. But you look at the amount of games that he played in this league and the amount of minutes he played. And we talk about plus minus. He's a guy that had to play those tough, tough defensive minutes and be able to dig out player, the puck out of the corner and be able to defend the net front. And he was rarely a minus player in his career. And even then it was, you know, minus one, minus five. He wasn't in the big minuses. For the role he played, it's exceptional. And you look at the opportunities he has had in this league to have those long, long playoff runs. You know, he was up to Florida Panthers last season, not the standard cup season, the season prior when they went to the cup and lost. But he's had those long runs. He's had those long runs with the New York Rangers and had great playoff runs as well. It's gonna be a guy that not in every day, the name isn't every day name, but he's not a guy. Oh, we're gonna miss Mark Stahl in all the amazing things he did. No, 'cause he did the little things right. And I think it's just showing you rightly that we're getting older and the league is getting younger, but congratulations to Mark Stahl for what an unbelievable career that he was able to amass with all of these teams. - Yeah, and his brother, Eric, just retired, announced his retirement August 6th after 18. NHL season, so Jordan has the last remaining stall in the NHL career. - Well, I will say this from the coyotes perspective of the old-time coyotes franchise, thrilled Eric Stahl has finally quit. Well, that, I tell you what, when this team would roll into Carolina, you knew you could be ahead by two goals with five minutes to go and you're gonna go, Eric Stahl's gonna win this game somehow. And he would, he was that guy. He was just a coyote killer. Every time the coyotes played, especially in Raleigh Durham, he was just dangerous. I just liked him on the opposing staff. I just disliked him 'cause he was so good. He had that, he worked so hard. And the puck just always seemed to find him, especially in front of the net. So seeing him out of the league as a coyote fan is one of those, thank you, beat it, beat it, pigeon. Had enough Eric Stahl in my nightmares and in those tight games in Carolina. - Yeah, you might've manifested that too hard that the whole team left, so you didn't have to stress about that, but that's- - Yeah, maybe that didn't work. Whoops, oh my goodness, all right. 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And I am now part of the remodel, which is, we might as well go back to it. Part of the remodel, we've got new bedroom furniture and there is now a PHNX drawer. Oh, I have a- I have a, I keep them in my closet and a stack but in its own special place so that they all stayed together. There's a PHNX drawer now. So I'm finally more organized. Good. That'll be helpful. All right. Well, we're going to talk about the PWHL next because they are teasing a big announcement on Monday. And if you can read between the lines, it's going to be the team announcements. Obviously when the PH, PWHL launched, they did so without a team name. So it was just PWHL, Toronto, Minnesota, New York, et cetera. They're announcing their names. The branding is coming. We've seen some rumors of what the names would be. Some lists Craig texted us. Furious yesterday, we saw a rumored list. All the names were singular. So torch, echo, alert, et cetera. But. Yeah. Big butt. Very upsetting. But those aren't official. Those are rumored. But there are teasers for each city. So we're going to try and guess what the names will be based on these teasers or just give what we think they should be based on these teasers. This is courtesy of Kyle Kushman on Twitter. So you ready? And then we can compare notes on Wednesday and see how right we are. Before we do this, Leah, I do want to clarify this because I was confused. So we get this list last night. And you know how I prepare for shows? I just read what you guys send me. And Craig said, here's the new names. And so I've done all this thinking of how I'm going to respond to all these stupid names that were on this tweet. They're stupid. They're horrible. They're dumb. They're pretty bad. They haven't had team names for an entire year. They waited an entire year to give names and they're bad. And I'm like, this is dumb. Dumb and I had thoughts. But then you tell me minutes before we go on air. No, those aren't the names. Those are just rumored of the names. And I'm like, well, what the-- this is-- have you ever heard that the internet gave up false internet information? I didn't know. Yeah, it wasn't. And it was true. Many outlets tweeted them as fact. And they credited this one person on Twitter who covers the PWHL. So I was like, oh, yeah, this is probably reliable. So I clicked on them. Sure. Yeah, she's a very reliable source. However, her tweet was, this is what I think the names will be. And maybe she knows something. Maybe she is revealing them. And I'll read-- I hope she doesn't know anything. Because they didn't hear names are not good, Leah. So let's read her list. And then we'll do our guesses. So this is the list that she tweeted. Toronto Torch, Montreal Echo, Ottawa Alert, Minnesota Superior, Boston Wicked, which I can kind of get behind. And the New York sound. So-- The only one I like out of that is the one you commented on. The Boston Wicked. That's wicked. Yeah, I could do that. I'm in for the Boston League of the Wrestling stink. Terrible. When we get to them, I'll tell you why. Because this journalist pulled them from the teasers. And so if you-- Well, what's the Burgess? Burgess, I'll give her credit. So if you listen to the teaser, this is where you go down. So let's do this, Leah. Let's do it properly. Let's do it. Give the teaser. And then let's come up with what we think. All right. Boston. Something is coming. So I'll go first. Because let's go back to the history of Boston. And Boston is all of those important times in the Revolutionary War, one by land, two by sea. Paul Revere is coming. It's the Boston Paul Revere's. The Paul Revere's? What about Paul Revere's? Paul Revere's. OK, just the Revere's, the Boston Revere's. The Boston, one by light, no, that's too long. The British are coming. No, that doesn't work either. The Boston Patriots, the Boston Tea Parties. The Boston Tees? It is definitely going to be something, throw back, history-ish. Yeah, but the Patriots are already a thing. So-- Yeah, so they can't do that. So something is coming. If we're going with a singularity that can be a storm, but why-- there's not storms that go into Boston. That's a dumb name, Boston Storm. Because a storm is coming. Something is coming. Like, what do you say is coming? I don't know. Yeah, I guess a storm. I like the British are coming. So we'll have to-- the Boston Revere's. But that doesn't make sense. I don't like the Paul Revere's. I'm just going to say that right now. The Paul Revere. I mean, I prefer-- but I like Boston Wicked. I don't really tie it to something is coming. Unless you're talking about something is coming. The movie Wicked coming to theaters. Yeah. Where are you? Musical. Somehow there's a sponsorship tied in. I'm not sure. With all of these, by the way, we want to hear from you in our comments on Twitter and in our Discord what you think each of the names will be. We'll move on to the next one. P.D.'s Homestay, Minnesota. A cold front is rolling in. OK. First of all, it's superior. Stupid because superior is a city in Wisconsin. There is no effing way that there's going to be a team called the Minnesota Superior. Because for a Minnesota, Superior is Wisconsin. The lake is Lake Superior, which borders Duluth, which is where all the iron r ships out of Minnesota. Superior is Wisconsin. Won't be superior. There is only one name when you say a cold front is moving in. Is a blizzard. That's what comes to me. The Minnesota blizzard, fitting like it, move on. I like-- and I can get behind blizzard. Wasn't blizzard one of the Utah, like, on the Utah list? Yes, it was. But that's not appropriate. I guess they do have snow storms there, too, but buddy. Yeah, but when I think of a snow storm, I'm choosing Minnesota. Minnesota, yeah. For sure. The windshield, the sub-zeroes. Yeah. I'm on the same page with blizzard. I'm on the same page with blizzard. I quickly want to go back to Boston because I'm reading the replies to the teaser tweets just to see what other people are saying. And somebody said, for Boston, with something is coming, something wicked this way comes. Love it. So that could be real. That's how you tie a wicked in. I love it. I always like that something wicked this way comes. That's really great. I'm all in on a wick. So so far, we have wicked or reveres. And we have Minnesota blizzard. Minnesota blizzard. We're good with that, right? All right, Montreal, something is calling. I don't know what this is. What was the one that we had was the echo, the Montreal echo. I know. And I think of siren when I hear that. When something is calling, something is calling. I have nothing. A siren in the water, they're calling to you or a siren. I don't know. I don't like siren for a name, but-- Yeah, I don't need that much. What does someone is calling? I don't know. Nothing. I literally have nothing. I don't know. So I guess I have anything. I didn't want to have anything. Like I think foam, like it was calling. Not here, no one's home. I mean, echo is not it, though. That's not someone. Something is calling. I don't see that as an echo. But what does that mean in Montreal? Are they famous for their echoes? No, that's dumb. Again, dumb, dumb. If you have this much time to come up with a name, come up with something that's meaningful for your community. Minnesota's a blizzard. Dead bang on it. That perfectly, especially in Minnesota, winners. And then you can smother your opponent and you could-- that gets great. I could see the marketing. I'll work for the-- Yeah. In Arena, like the operations would be great. Yeah. Yes, I don't know. I don't know. Montreal, something is calling. The Montreal-- your mother-in-law is calling your-- Can you hear me now? Your-- the iPhone is calling. Yes, exactly. The Montreal bagels are calling your name. So what did-- did people have any comments in the teaser? People think it's echo. Really do, huh? OK, next one, we have New York turning the volume up. Yeah, and what do they say? And they said the sound. The sound. Oh, like the rock? The-- like, rocking. I've all those shows in New York and Broadway and sound. You could say rock because of, like, rock feller in New York. I don't know. Billy Joel's-- I mean, I think it's got to be something like-- I don't think sound is enough. I don't think sound is enough for turning up the volume. Like, I just don't think that gives you the-- the visualization of the SMR of a buzzer, a bang, or a rock, the New York rock. I don't know. Lea thoughts? Yeah, I don't know. I'm reading through-- the blast, the blast, the buzz, the-- I don't know. Yeah, because, I mean, the one thing about New York is it's like it's one of the loudest cities in the world. So I get that. I just don't know how you say that. The sound isn't a thing. Sound-- like, sound to me is like-- you do the Puget sound. It's like a-- That's what I think about when I hear sound. I think I'm like-- Yeah, I think of a sound, like a-- Yeah, that's their noise sound. Like the New York noise, but that would be even better than sound. Maybe I take back, because I said siren from Montreal. Maybe the New York sirens. But the logo is not like a siren, like a wee-eew-eew. It's a siren, like the mythological-- It's called the water creature. Yeah, I kind of like that. That could be-- that could work. It has a double meaning. Yeah, double meaning you're on the water. Yeah, I could do with that. I could look at that. It's got to be something that denotes how loud that city is. And it is a city of buzz with noise. Agree. All right, next one. We have Ottawa bringing the energy. OK, have you been to Ottawa? I have, isn't it? I don't know what energy it's bringing. Yeah, I don't wear it. We're coming up with the bringing of the energy, the-- So when I think energy, I'm thinking of electrical, so that's where I go with the lightning, like you have in Tampa. Surge, the Ottawa surge. Oh, why surge? I don't hate surge as far as a singular nickname. Yeah, and it does seem like we're going a lot of singular nicknames, even in our suppositions. I know, maybe we're just-- Are we out of plural names, ideas? Maybe that's just it. Across all the links. Yeah, I think-- I like surge more than alert, which is what the guess was. I like surge or bolt or the strike, like a lightning strike, but you can't take lightning because it's-- It's an energy. All the people, yeah. When I think of Ottawa, I mean, obviously, the NHL team, the senators, is a very aptly named-- Yes. And I think that I remember when they were naming the Washington commanders in the NFL, which is a terrible name, there were other names because DC has a similar thing to Ottawa because it's the nation's capital. I feel like there's so many different directions they could have gone with commanders. I forget what some of those suggestions were, but maybe they're ones that could go with Ottawa. I think of Ottawa. I think of the government buildings. I also think of Poutine and I think of Beaver Tails. If you've been to Ottawa-- If you know, you know. Oh, does that sound yummy right now? Ottawa Beaver Tails? The Beaver Tails. The Ottawa Beavers. What's wrong with that? That's with many state beavers. That's their motto. But the Beaver Tails. I could go for that. It was like, you know what, a nice either cup of cocoa or a coffee right now and a Beaver Tail would be ideal. Yeah, sounds great. OK, well, last one. We have Toronto, almost ready to rule the rink. So that's what it is. I'm like, because we're almost ready to rule. Yeah, I know, like, almost ready to rule. Like, I don't know, because when you think of that, you do think Regal, don't you? Like, you do think Kings and Queens and royalty. And which makes sense in Toronto? I could see that Toronto Royals. I could see Royals because I know there's a baseball team, but I think that MLB and the PWHL are far enough apart. You know, there's repeat names across the league. I think for the PWHL, you won't want to repeat an NHL name, but you could repeat a baseball name. I like the Royals. I mean, you think there's the Royal Ontario Museum. There's, you know, a lot of influence because Canada was, you know, settled by the British, besides the French areas, obviously. It's a it's a British Commonwealth. So there is a lot of. And they're sweaters. Look at the Portrano sweaters, though. They're royal blue. Like, that's what color they are. So I think you could tie it in with that as well, because they were the royal blue with, they're very similar to what you see with the Utah hockey clubs colors, the royal blue with either navy, blue or black. I can never tell because I have issues with the same color. But I think Royals makes a lot more sense to me. I actually like that might be like my favorite of the names, besides maybe Blizzard. I like the Blizzard a lot, but I do have decided right now that Toronto Royals is now my new favorite PWHL name. And just just because we were talking about it, do you know who won the league last year? Minnesota. Yeah, just one to throw that. But the Minnesota, the land of the land of hockey. There we go. Oh, boy. Well, I think we've done a good job, Leah. I think that too. I think that the naming committee should, you know, it's Friday for the play announcement. I think that they should really listen to this and consider what we had to say. But no, in all sense, I'm excited. I think there's a lot of buzz around the PWHL. I think I mean, you know, they're mostly in the Northeast, the teams. I have friends in Toronto who go to the games and say they're absolutely unbelievable. I know there's a lot of talk here in the valley about wanting to see a team here. I know, you know, there's been, I don't know if there's quite the infrastructure there yet. What I love to see a PWHL team in Arizona one day, 100%. Absolutely. But if you want to support women's hockey in Arizona, in the meantime, ASU does have a women's team. So you can check out their schedule, follow them on Twitter. But I'm all in on the PWHL. I'm excited about these announcements, whether or not I like the names or not. We'll see. We'll see how right we were on these. But like we mentioned, please let us know what you think the names are going to be on our Twitter @PHNX_hockey and also in our die-hard-only Discord as well. I'm sure we'll get some good responses there. And if you're not a die-hard, I already mentioned you get 20% off on merchandise. You also get 20% off on events. You get access to die-hard-only content on the website and you get access to our Discord where we talk every single day. It's a great community, a great space to talk about hockey. If you're just an Arizona sports fan, if you're a die-hard Diamondbacks fan, there's a very active Diamondbacks Discord. If you're an ASU fan, there's a very active ASU Discord. So it's a great place to be an Arizona sports fan and it's one of the, I think, probably the best perk to becoming a pH next die-hard. And I know that PD is planning to tell some behind-the-seam stories in the coming, in the coming weeks and months here for our die-hard. So become a die-hard today. And we have a ton of great events coming up as well. Go pH next.com/events to check that out. Cardinals away watch parties at Hila while horse pass. Plus we have Cardinals home tailgates at Chicken and Pickle before every home game. Come on out, it's gonna be a pretty fun. Oh, you can eat food and drink, come on. Chicken and Pickle, great name, great place, great location and great fun. I enjoy the Chicken and Pickle. I do, I love that place. I can't wait to get out to sit down. I love the Pickle Ball part. And this is the Chicken and Pickle Ball, I know, but it's because when we went, we probably took it just a shade too serious. Yeah, you fell. I fell twice trying to get to the US Open. Now I can get to that shot and my head said I could get there, my body said you probably can't. And I watched, I literally watched right before we played Leah. This is true, not making this up. I watched a doubles match of 70-year-old plus women play. And I'm not making that up. They were playing outside, they were having a ball, I'm going, well, they can do it, I can do it. I couldn't do it. (laughing) I'm gonna have to work on my Pickle Ball skills. All right. Well, let's wrap things up with Friday, fun day. I mean, you've already talked about your home renovations. We talked earlier this week about how Petey has been messaging me about Love Island. Petey, I forgot to tell you. We finished, presumed innocent. Oh, and did you get it? Don't give away the end, did I get you? Right up to the very end, you don't know who did it. Yeah. Even to the very, very end. You go, like they didn't really tell you did it. And all of a sudden, oh, it's that person. And then you go, it's not that person, isn't it crazy? Yeah, it's so, it was so good, loved it, Apple TV. Wow. If you haven't watched that, definitely definitely check that one out. I'm also watching the Sopranos right now on Mac. They're good for you. Have you watched before? I haven't. I'm on season four. Oh, good for you. Oh, look at you going back old skiers. Yeah, I put that in top. That's top five of the TV series all time. And I feel like it's so culturally relevant that you need. It's one of those that you kind of have to watch. Yeah, I agree. Good for you, Leah. Look at you growing up. Oh, well, thank you. So that's my weekend binge. What do you got? Well, as we know, I'll be buying towels and sheets and all that. That's my weekend. So won't be much. But I will say, I have to say it, when you don't want to have a thank and you want mindless nothingness, love island. And I understand, I do understand it, but I do understand it now. I get it. Like, there's nothing. There's, you worry about day to day life and you've got all these problems and you've got stuff going on, but the stuff with Love Island, their problems are not real problems. And it is ugly. It's like middle school. It's like middle school with 20-somethings. Like the way they act and we're going steady and we put up a wall and it's unbelievable. I'm off limits and whatever the terms are. I don't know. So yeah, I'm closed off. Yeah, I'm closed off. I had to ask, I googled it closed off, but that's true. I never heard that term in my life. But I do have another one. And again, if people that are new to this show, I've got to keep pumping Britbox. There's a new Britbox show called the Good Ship Murder, the Good Ship Murder. And it takes place on a cruise ship and the lounge singer at the cruise ship is a former cop and he and the first mate saw the new mystery every week. There's a new mystery and they travel it all around Europe. Like they port at these beautiful locations and that's where the murder happens. And then they have to solve the murder and these beautiful Casablanca was the last episode. And it's very light. It's not the serious, like it's not law and order, like murder mysteries. It's much, much lighter. You know, it's an easy watch, the Good Ship Murder. And then they always end with the guy singing a song and he's really, really, really, really good. Like he's kind of like a Michael Buble kind of singer. Wow. And so that's how every, and he, but he's got this love thing. Like he loves the first mate. She's this woman that doesn't give him any attention. And now there's this love triangle. Like she's dating somebody else on the ship and he's, he's really trying. So this is that romance too. Wow. Yeah. Good Ship Murder. Good Ship Murder to get your weekend going. Leah, for the, for the two people that are still listening after my discussion on Love Island and the Good Ship Murder. More hockey coming though. We got a lot more hockey coming. Yeah, there's a lot of exciting stuff on the horizon. Our live show on Wednesday is going to be all ASU because we already mentioned that they are best on the ice. The PD is going to go out there this week or this coming week to talk with some players and coaches. So that'll all be coming Wednesday and our Friday audio show next week will be very college hockey-centric as well. Yes. And I will be. Yes. I'm excited for the week ahead. Yeah. Lots on the horizon or minute. And then why, Leah? I know you want to wrap it up, but I want to see you know why it's getting exciting because stuff is getting close now. Yeah. The rookie camps are opening up next week for the NHL, which means that the Tucson Road Runners players will be under the tutelage of Coach Steve Potvin next week. And we're going to have stuff to talk about finally. We're going to have ASU hockey, Road Runer hockey. I mean, I am excited. It's getting much, much, much closer. So the dog days this summer are almost over. I know we're almost there. It was still 111 degrees in Phoenix yesterday, but that's fine. We got NFL football back on. That's my last weekend binge, of course. But yeah, we're close. We're going to start previewing the NHL season. We're going to be talking a lot more Road Runners, a lot more ASU. So lots on the horizon and we'll be following it all, all season long on this channel. So make sure you subscribe to the PHN Sports YouTube so you don't miss our live shows, which are Wednesdays at noon. And then make sure while you're listening now that you're subscribed and leave us a little five star review where we get your podcast so you don't miss the audio only episodes as well. And be sure to follow our Twitter at PHNX underscore hockey. And listen, as the Utah stuff comes out, if you're one of those, there's the group that's neutral, then we're following them to Utah group. And then there's the, I don't want to hear about it. The angle on the PHNX hockey Twitter is, listen, it's hard to see. Seeing Josh Stone in a Utah jersey this week, that hurt. So we're going to get through all of this together. Pac therapy has been a thing for PHNX Coyotes. And now, PHNX hockey, Pac therapy will continue as we get through this new phase of having to watch our ex move on and be happy in front of us. We got you, we'll be there for you to help support you. But if you're all in on Utah, then there's another outlet for that as well. We don't need to talk about it anymore, but I just want everybody to know that there's options, but this show will be Arizona focused and the only Utah focus will be on the road runners players in any national news. So that's what's on the horizon for us. We appreciate you all so much for listening. You can follow us on Twitter @espetershockey, @LiamMeryl. Enjoy your weekend, everybody. Enjoy watching football, enjoy wishing that the weather was cooler, but it's not here in Arizona. If that's where you live, that's kind of where I am. I'm actually going up north this weekend to get away from the over a hundred degree weather. So that's what's on the horizon for me, but enjoy the rest of your weekend, everybody. And we will talk to you all next week.