Cat Talk! The Florida Panthers made a trade and acquired goalie Vitek Vanecek from the San Jose sharks, sending Chris Driedger off. Why are Panthers fans attached to Spencer Knight?
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00:00I'm the Florida Panthers have made a trade, they have acquired veteran goalie VTEC Vantagek
00:09from the San Jose Sharks.
00:15So there we have our answer.
00:16I guess, I guess they don't like Drieger that much.
00:18I guess not.
00:19I guess he hasn't been having a very good season.
00:23He hasn't been very good down with the checkers, but I don't know what, you know, I don't know
00:27what the checkers have to provide.
00:28I'm not watching Charlotte checkers games.
00:32You'll excuse me.
00:33But this is from David Dwork.
00:37It says that the Panthers acquired VTEC Vantagek from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for forward
00:41Patrick Giles deal with first reported by Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press.
00:45He's playing his fifth season in the NHL playing on the final year of his deal, which holds
00:50an average annual value of 3.4 million through 18 games this season.
00:56He has a record of three, 10 and three with an 882 save percentage and a 3.88 goals average
01:07against not a great year, dude.
01:11That's better than Drieger.
01:12Well, don't say that.
01:13We don't know.
01:14Marco, my finger slipped.
01:15Sorry.
01:16Sorry.
01:17Sorry.
01:18My finger slipped.
01:25So that's better than Drieger.
01:31San Jose this season has the fewest points in the NHL.
01:35So I guess they're saying, Hey, he's a CC plays.
01:37He's on a team that sucks.
01:38We think he's good.
01:39I mean, they did the same thing with Seth Jones.
01:46They did do the same thing.
01:47They are buying.
01:48They're getting guys who they think are talented and they think can, uh, it's really a Bob
01:54insurance policy.
01:55Bob is 36.
01:57So like you have a guy who was starting experience, not good.
02:00Sorry.
02:01Experience this year, but good starting experience in the past.
02:07Why are you so sad?
02:08Frog boy.
02:09I just go back to, I don't think we should've got rid of Spencer nine.
02:14Yeah, but here's the problem.
02:18He was the only asset you had that could still give you an opportunity to get that
02:29talent that you want to help in other areas.
02:33If you did, if you trade anybody else, you're getting rid of, you know, some of the guys
02:39that have, you know, that you really like, whereas backup goalie, I mean, that's, that's
02:49it.
02:50I think Spencer nice.
02:51It'd be good.
02:52Glad to see, I was glad to see that, you know, he came back from whatever demons he came
02:59back from.
03:00He just, yeah.
03:01I know.
03:02Like he's, I think, I think he is going to be good.
03:04Like there's, but the one thing is he's not going to be anything more than the backup
03:08here for right now.
03:09That's what I'm saying.
03:10Not going to give Bob, you're not going to give him Bob's job.
03:14So if Bob was struggling, then the trade would have been different, but because Bob's been
03:25great, the only real talent you have to trade is the backup goalie.
03:33Who's really good, but it is a gamble because it's like, and this is the question, like
03:38the Panthers are going all in and they're getting a guy who makes a ton of dough.
03:42Now money's probably going to go up in the NHL, just like it is in all sports.
03:46But look, Zito's familiar with Seth Jones.
03:50Like if, if obviously if he didn't have that relationship with him and didn't think that
03:55he was, that he had the good still in him and he played on a terrible team, like Chicago
04:01is the second worst team in the league.
04:04So you're taking them out of hockey hell and putting them on a contender.
04:10I don't know.
04:12It's it's just, it really is just your, your, if the Panthers lost Sergey Bobrovsky for
04:17whatever reason, and you were to go into it with Chris Drieger, who is being bad in minor
04:22league hockey this year, it would be an all-time fumble by the cats now is it's just that you're
04:31going to need.
04:32The hope is you're going to need what Seth Jones provides you on a much bigger scale
04:37than whatever this situation or whatever Spencer Knight could be for this team, because Spencer
04:43Knight wasn't going to be anything more than the backup.
04:45I guess the only thing you can say is like, look, if the Vantage check ends up stinking
04:48up the joint too, because he hasn't been good even with him being on a terrible team, you
04:55know, then you're going to be like, man, we gave up.
04:57We really, it's almost, almost remind you to baseball to remind you of when the Marlins
05:02traded for Uga Thurbina at the deadline for Adrian Gonzalez, who ended up being a really
05:06good player.
05:07But Uga Thurbina, who did end up getting over the finish line, man, he had a post career
05:13with murder, but you probably, you gave up an all-star player essentially for him at
05:21the time.
05:22Like the Panthers are in wind now.
05:24This is what they're, this is, this is, this is the playpen they're in.
05:26Like you, you can't, I don't think the Panther fan can sit here and worry about the future
05:32right now.
05:33Right.
05:34Like with, when we talked about like with the dolphins, they were in that mode, they
05:37were trying to go all trips and they will, and it kind of blew up in their face and maybe
05:40it will, but the Panthers are, they're in repeat mode right now.
05:43Like the Panthers right now are in, in, at the absolute apex of their winning.
05:49They're in there.
05:50Right.
05:51Exactly.
05:52So the moves that they make might differ from somebody who hasn't been there, right?
05:59So from that standpoint, you have your core, you haven't traded any of the guys that won
06:07you to Stanley cup.
06:08You just made moves to improve on that.
06:12And so you can appreciate that.
06:15David Dwork says in his first three years of his career, he was on a very solid, a Washington,
06:20New Jersey squads.
06:21Vantage check was consistently solid and had the numbers to back it up.
06:24Joining a defensive squad like floors will protect the house and limit the second chance
06:27opportunities could see Vantage X game take off.
06:29Once again, we'll get plenty of opportunities to play in the final 20 regular season games.
06:34Florida has five back-to-back sets.
06:37Yep.
06:40He says Florida giving up jobs is nothing to sneeze at the 25 year old forward played
06:44his first nine games in the NHL earlier this season has been a source of solid to a play
06:47in leadership during his time with the checkers.
06:50Now he will join the sharks.
06:51Oof.
06:52Poor bastard.
06:53You play for the checkers.
06:54You basically are playing for the sharks.
07:00You think, uh, you think, you think, uh, Chris career's brother ever calls him.
07:04I'd be like, well, let me tell you something, dude, at least you're not the bottom of the
07:07NHL.
07:08I didn't even think about that.
07:11It's true.
07:13Dolphin sharks.
07:14Hmm.
07:15Hmm.
07:16Hmm.
07:17Hmm.
07:18Hmm.
07:19Hmm.
07:20Who do you got to fight?
07:21Let's see.
07:22Don't want to team up.
07:23Yeah.
07:24I saw some dolphins do some crazy stuff recently.
07:25I was at sea world.
07:27They know things.
07:28What?
07:29Yeah.
07:30All right.
07:31You know what I mean?
07:32They know things.
07:33They know things.
07:34Please, please enlighten us.
07:35What do they know?
07:36And the other one was like, the question here is, do we trust Bill Zito?
07:47I think the answer is of course.
07:48Yes.
07:49Absolutely.
07:50And if I don't trust him, I'm not going to tell it to him.
07:55You see that face during the games when they lost, they got, they got, he's got a little
07:58crazy.
07:59They punch you right in the face.
08:01You don't believe it is trades.
08:02I like it.
08:03It says the Panthers goalie department, one of the best out there.
08:11So the trust is there.
08:12The system they run is to protect goalies, but losing night stings.
08:17It isn't like look, the Panthers fan has a special love for this guy, right?
08:20Like he goes and he wins playoff games at 19.
08:23They say his name in the national anthem.
08:25It stings.
08:26I get it.
08:27Everybody wanted to see Spencer night workout.
08:28And I think people, the thing that probably was surprising about all of it was not only
08:33that his dealings of OCD and because he was away from the team, almost opened the door
08:41back up for Bob to get his job back.
08:43Cause I think a lot of people had two eyes on Bob probably being on the outs between
08:47Alex Lyons and Chris Drieger and Spencer night.
08:50A lot of guys were stepping up, but Sergey Bobrovsky is, is now back in the vault of
08:55he's going to the hall of fame, but the last two years of Sergey Bobrovsky his career have
09:01put him in lands where his Jersey's probably going to go in the rafters.
09:05He's going to the hall of fame and yeah, it's a little weird and it's a little scary because
09:10he's 36, 37, but dude, let me tell you something.
09:14The guy is, I don't think anything's going to happen to him.
09:17He's basically plyometrics that are like in a goalie outfit.
09:21Like it's, it's the workouts that he puts together.
09:25The the amount of stuff that he puts into his, like, I understand the Panthers trusting
09:30that aging.
09:31Okay.
09:32Even if it seems silly because, Oh, this is going to be well at 37.
09:34Now I don't know what happens at the end of his career because what if Bob comes at 38
09:38is like my body fat cat deal, end of contract two years.
09:46I don't know what happens then, but that's a problem for two years from now.
09:53Right now we're at repeat mode.
09:56I can't talk about Spencer Knight.
09:58I'm sorry.
09:59I hope he, I wish, I wish him no success, right?
10:02I wish him no success, but I also, I, you know, I, but I also don't wish him.
10:09Hmm.
10:10With the Chicago, right?
10:13Yeah.
10:14Yeah.
10:15We'll be having success for a while.
10:16Conor.
10:17There's a front.
10:18There's a, there's a front page story today on ESPN.com.
10:21It says, uh, how the Chicago Blackhawks have just sped up the rebuild.
10:25Everybody thinks that they're like this, like this guy, he is a prodigy between the pipes.
10:32We get it.
10:33We get it.
10:34But he wasn't going to be here.
10:36It hurts.
10:37Makes sense though.
10:41Take a break.
10:42If, if Bob gets injured for any reason.
10:45Yeah.
10:46You're going to be, you're going to be feeling like Nico Harrison.
10:50Yeah.
10:51You can't plan for stuff like that.
10:56Yeah.
10:57Right.
10:58Like to say we need to have a top notch backup goalie.
11:03When you can go get a guy like Seth Jones or, you know what I mean?
11:07I just think that's too much.