COMMENTARY: PASS THE TEST
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Wednesdays are a day for random thoughts on this commentary and today is no different. Here we go:
#1) Seemingly everyday the standings atop the NHL change so picking Stanley Cup favourites is not only difficult, it’s actually impossible.
But there is one team who’s mulching all the rest, and that’s the Florida Panthers. Their 3-2 overtime win at home over Ottawa Tuesday night was their sixth in a row and puts them #2 in the NHL behind only Vancouver.
A Canucks-Panthers Stanley Cup Final would be fine by me. And could you imagine an Oilers-Panthers clash?
Again, impossible to predict.
#2) What a year for the RP Show to partner with Curling Canada to promote its national championships! Particularly the Montana’s Brier, which will be waged in the Brandt Centre March 1-10.
The drama is off-the-charts heading into this thing, as Saskatchewan – skipped by Mike McEwen – attempts again to end its national mens title drought which extends back to 1980.
But there will be several curlers in other colours who have Sask ties, like wildcard reps Matt Dunstone out of Manitoba, and Ben Hebert of Alberta’s Team Bottcher, or Catlin Schneider, who’s repping BC.
Dunstone said on Tuesday’s RP Show that he wants the Sask people to decide for themselves who they’re cheering for but my guess is it’ll be Team McEwen, since they’ll be the only ones wearing green.
But you never know till the event starts!
And #3) Since the Hall of Fame debate isn’t fun anymore (it’s turned into a popularity contest rather than a meritocracy), I really enjoy the discussion over retired jerseys; especially since Jaromir Jagr’s #68 was hung in the rafters in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
I’ve in been attendance for almost all Regina Pats jersey retirement ceremonies and hope to be there for the next one … when Connor Bedard’s #98 takes its rightful place on the west end wall beside Hicke, Sobchuk, Sillinger, Derkatch et al. He’s the great Pat ever, so he deserves to be there.
However just mentioning that idea on our show Facebook page this week caused a wild reaction and hurtful comments about Bedard’s place in that group.
But just like making a baby, you don’t need to pass an IQ test to get a Facebook account.
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary
(The Rod Pedersen Show airs daily at 12 pm & 5 pm on Game+TV, WQEE Radio, Podcast & YouTube Live)
Connor Bedard in all actually was just a audience draw for the Regina Pats Hockey Club, a distraction at times to the overall team concept, most times a almost sideshow carnival. Honest assessment, while it was nice to have a young generational player like Connor Bedard on the Pats roster, Connor Bedard in Regina was only there to be babysat, he didn’t accomplish anything close to a league championship. Doug Wickenheiser (RIP on the other hand), also a #1 NHL draft choice from the Regina Pats with a phenomenal WHL game with the scoring stats to prove it was sensational… Read more »
Yeah it’s bedards fault the pats didn’t accomplish anything smh. The fact of the matter is the pats are the toronto maple leafs of the chl/whl.
Uh huh, and if your old lady made that same comparison to you. “Samuel you’re good…but the greatest I ever spent time with through my bloodshot eyes out at Craven….mmmmm no but you’re good.”
You’d be running for a safe space.
This is year 41 at Regina Pats games. When I say I have literally seen them all – go listen to Toby Keith’s song “That’s Country Bro” – I have seen them all from day 1 and was young enough to recall all the guys on Doug Wickenheiser’s era that didn’t get retired numbers. It took decades to finally get Jock Callander up there and along the way guys like Kevin Haller, Frank Kovacs, Garth Butcher, Jamie Heward, Brad Stuart, Derek Morris, Jeff Friesen, Louis Dumont, Sam Steele, etc, etc, etc, trust me I can keep going. Conor Bedard made… Read more »
Erik Karlsson to the Maple Leafs for Morgan Rielly and few throw ins with the Penguins responsible for a portion of the Karlsson contract.