Podcast Ombudsman Report for Blueshirt Bandwidth Ep. 70

Welcome back to the Blueshirt Bandwidth Podcast Ombudsman Report. Each week, Charlie Vidal will listen to the latest episode of the podcast and correct the record on anything Joe and Eric get wrong. If you aren't already, you can listen and subscribe to the podcast here.

Most Important Podcast

Chip called this the most important podcast of the year. That’s not true; that will be the Vincent Trocheck trade podcast.

Episode 70

This was the MacKenzie Skapski episode. He played two games in the NHL, winning both of his appearances in the New York Rangers' net against the Buffalo Sabres during the 2014-15 season as the backup to Cam Talbot while Henrik Lundqvist was injured. Both games were part of a back-to-back and a period of three games in four nights.

In his NHL debut on Feb. 20, Skapski surrendered just one goal on 25 shots to lead the Rangers to a 3-1 victory:

One month later, Skapski shut out the Sabres 2-0.

It was also mentioned that Louie Domingue was eating spicy pork. During Game 1 of the 2022 first round, Domingue ate “spicy pork with broccoli” during the fourth intermission between the first and second overtime periods. Domingue notably came on in relief of Casey DeSmith late in the second overtime and went on to get the win when Evgeni Malkin scored in the third overtime.

Domingue says he ate ‘spicy pork and broccoli’ before triple-OT heroics

Connected

Finally, when introducing Chip, Eric said that, “we’ll see if you pitch a shutout off the bench.” The remainder of this report will demonstrate that despite his solid performance off the bench, Chip did not pitch a shutout.

Toronto Zamboni Driver

David Ayres was a building operations employee and Zamboni driver for the Toronto Marlines, the Toronto Maple Leafs' AHL team, who served as the emergency backup goaltender and was pressed into duty on Feb. 22, 2020. He stopped eight of the 10 shots that he faced to backstop the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-3 win:

Later that year, Upper Deck produced a Young Guns rookie card of Ayres in the 2019-20 Update Series set:

Another goalie whose rookie card was featured in that set was Igor Shesterkin:

Bitcoin

Eric brought up the example of somebody buying a pizza for “10 Bitcoins” back in 2011. It was actually 10,000 Bitcoins on May 22, 2010, and it was not officially affiliated with Papa John’s. Instead, somebody on a Bitcoin forum offered 10,000 Bitcoins (worth approximately $41 at the time) for two large Papa John’s pizzas. Four days later, somebody took him up on the offer and Bitcoin Pizza Day was born.

Those 10,000 Bitcoins today would be worth approximately $700 million (as of Sunday afternoon).

For good measure, here is the clip of Nikki Glaser making fun of Tom Brady for losing $30 million in Bitcoin:

Number 24

Chip requested a moratorium on number 24 because it’s been bad since Ryan Callahan left. The following players have worn 24 for the New York Rangers since Callahan’s departure:

• Ryan Malone
• Oscar Lindberg
• Boo Nieves
• Kaapo Kakko
• Carson Soucy

(Frankly, I forgot that Ryan Malone was ever a New York Ranger.)

Liam Greentree

There has been quite a bit of back and forth on how good of a prospect Liam Greentree is. JFresh himself tweeted that Liam Greentree is “not so much a prospect on the rise:”

JFresh’s prospect model likes Greentree a little more, with him having a 94 percent chance of becoming a full-time NHLer, with a 36 percent chance of becoming a star. That immediately makes Greentree one of the Ranger’s top three prospects, and gives him a higher probability of being a star than Gabe Perreault or Scott Morrow:

Panarin Return

It was mentioned that Panarin would go to one of his preferred teams unless there was somebody willing to give him $12 million per year over five years. Although not reaching that amount, Panarin got a pretty close offer. Per Elliotte Friedman’s sources, the Seattle Kraken offered Panarin a deal worth at least $56 million guaranteed over 4 years, much greater than the one that he eventually signed with the Los Angeles Kings:

I guess that Panarin is really rich and just wants to live in New York City or Los Angeles.

K’Andre Miller

When discussing K’Andre Miller, Eric said that the “Hurricanes have a floor raising system.” That is true, in that the Hurricanes have a very good defense, but Miller has also been great this season for them:

Jeff Gorton Draft Picks

Jeff Gorton’s record in the draft was criticized. You can’t expect a GM to know which player taken 10 picks later will become a star, but it’s fair to compare the players that he actually picked with the ones who were picked immediately after. Here’s how that breaks down for Gorton. Which column of players would you rather have?

(Side Note: If you want to have fun and mess with a Philly Phan, do this exercise for the “Process” Philadelphia 76ers.)

Trouba

Somebody in the comments section praised Jacob Trouba by saying that “Trouba concussed Sidney Crosby.” Sidney Crosby was not concussed during the 2022 playoffs by Trouba, and the Penguins just pretended that he was concussed because they wanted the league to suspend Jacob Trouba.

Although ESPN initially reported that Crosby missed Game 6 with a concussion, it turned out that he never had concussion symptoms and missed game 6 for an “upper body injury:”

Furthermore, per the official policy of Blueshirt Banter, we do not condone celebrating injuries, especially concussions—even if the player in question is Sidney Crosby.

Binnington

Eric mentioned that Team Canada might start the worst goalie in hockey in the Olympics, but that Jordan Binnington played out of his mind at the 4 Nations tournament. Here is the Ombudsman Report where I pointed out that Binnington has been the worst goalie in hockey. Additionally, Binnington had a middle of the pack .907 save percentage in the 4 Nations Face-Off last season: