The Florida Panthers make a trade and acquire new Goalie!

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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.

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