Grenade Pin Pulled. Bomb Coundown Ticking.
5/20/20261 hr 10 min
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First 90 secondsDavid Herle· Host0:00
[whimsical music] All right. Greetings, you happily miserable accurseds. Hurley here with your post-Victoria Day long weekend pod. Thanks for hanging in with us for the extra 24 hours. Gave us a nice break. Leitnis is here, Dilory is here, Reed is here, and the ghosts of Richard, LaFleur, Belliveau, and Dryden are with us this morning too, Scott.
Scott Reid· Panelist0:31
Yes, sir. So in fact, I summoned two ghosts to my front room in order to shift the, uh, uh, course of the game. I, I went with, went with my Dryden jersey, which he'd signed- Yeah ... uh, because I hadn't worn that yet during the playoffs, so I thought we need some big magic for game seven here. And- Never lost a game seven, Ken Dryden ... and well, and, and it worked. It worked until they came back and tied it up at two, in which case I decided I gotta, I g- I gotta do something. So one, I poured myself a rum. Two, I changed, uh, I changed to the LaFleur jersey, 'cause I'm thinking it's all about scoring now, and no one better. And, uh, and I'm happy to say, uh, that my efforts, my specific conjuring efforts succeeded, and the Habs emerged victorious.
David Herle· Host1:23
That's how sports work, so congrats.
Scott Reid· Panelist1:25
Well, whatever.
Jordan Leichnitz· Panelist1:25
Yeah, I just want to know, like do you wash these jerseys like ever?
Scott Reid· Panelist1:28
No.
Jordan Leichnitz· Panelist1:28
Or is that, does that... No, that washes