Johnny and Dolly the team is supported by ableauctions.ca closing your business we can help I gotta get a new car that's a story for another day all of today's guests including Jake Elliott getting ready for the man cup brought to you by the Giants the Vancouver Giants Giants kick off their preseason Friday Poco Community Center puck drop seven their regular season home opener Friday September 22nd seven o'clock at the LEC gets single game and season tickets now at vancouvergiants.com season tickets I'll tell you what a hot ticket is right now uh the man Cup game one tomorrow New West at Queen's Park versus Six Nations the uh Ontario Champions always the entertainment level with the great game of Lacrosse is off the charts obviously I'm biased I love the sport from the lacrosse classified podcast he's going to give us some information on streaming the man cup watching the games play-by-play broadcaster Supreme Jake Elliott joins us now Jake thanks for doing this sir how are you my pleasure Johnny good to be with you good to have you guys back on check TV Rick Ryan how are we good very good and I love your background here Jake it's a it's a shot of a packed Queens Park arena and I'm telling you folks if you've never been there for an event like this you have to go it's like a trip back in time except it's not back in time it is something special Jake does this series extra special because it's there yeah I think you you got to say that Don uh excuse me they you know these two teams met in the man cup twice in a row back in the mid 90s back east in 94 and then back here in New West and in 95 both those series featuring bench brawls uh throughout that Series so I don't think we'll we'll get that here in in 2023 but uh man it brings back a lot of memories of being in that burn and and man uh I was actually back in Oakville calling the President's Cup for game seven so I had to to miss out on that but watching the video of the the packed Arena they ran out of beer in the first period rest assured people that will not happen in the man cup but uh man oh man it looked fantastic and you know with six nations coming to to New West they're going to get a lot of indigenous support throughout the Squamish Nation Kate C stolo uh semi AMU all these uh folks are going to be out there with their drums banging so it's not going to be just all salmon belly fans inside Queen spark Arena gonna be a lot of Six Nations Chiefs fans that's to yeah that 95 series was vicious uh Jake and uh yeah extremely memorable and some people would say for some of the uh wrong reasons but definitely uh memorable why is the last couple of weeks lacrosse has really captured the imagination of of the Lower Mainland people in BC why is that Jake well I I think you got to start with the talent on the floor Don um you know these these two teams that met in the WLA finals could rival some national lacrosse lead team rosters and Six Nations might be a level beyond that so you know the town level the speed of the play the athleticism it's just off the charts I think the game of Lacrosse in box across in particular it's never been better uh and these kids that are coming up through the works right now are just unbelievably talented and they learn from the best in the game which are on display right now so for me the the main reason is just the talent and the speed and the physicality I mean you know Don this this sport of Lacrosse in box Lacrosse it really encompasses everything you could ever imagine and want out of a sport the new West Langley series uh Jake uh game seven you know Langley was up three two uh new s grinds back talk about their goal Center Zach Higgins he was big he was the MVP and will Malcolm's uh great in game seven seven points four goals three assists that was one heck of a game seven in a series overall yeah it sure was it was a real goaltending battle throughout the entire series between Frank chileano and and Zach Higgins who actually didn't start on the roster for New West at the beginning of the year he kind of came I want to say about seven or eight games in and took over the starting job he was there the previous year they weren't sure if he was going to come back but man oh man are they ever happy he did uh easily firing away the MVP of that series and they don't win without Zach Higgins and I would say Zach tendy bear as he's called uh on Twitter will need to be just as good if not better to give the bellies a chance in this series The the Firepower that the Chiefs have up front you know they go eight nine ten deep on offense any one of them could be playing on the power play so he's gonna have to be their best player I truly believe that for the New Westminster to have a good shot of winning this series so Jake I'm hearing that the Chiefs are going to be uh you know they're the favorites there's no question about it I mean they're coached by The Legend John Tavares uh he played at the man Cup in 95 in New West in that thing in that series that was called the war on the wooden floor that's what it was called but give us some more insight to this uh six nations team this is pretty a stacked team yeah I mean uh what can you say about John Tavares uh formerly a Vancouver barrard back and I want to say 1990 uh played the man cup as well but this guy's won everything there is to win he's the head coach of the Buffalo Bandits as well who just won the NFL Championship so a real rare feat on the line here for John Tavares to win the NFL championship and the man Cup Championship as a coach I don't know if there's I think Mike Hazen might be the only other guy to do that in the history so pretty special there but you know then when you're you're talking about this team it's there's no weakness on it really uh you can start with Lyle Thompson who arguably the best player on the planet uh Randy Stotts right there with them breaking news here on Donnie and Dolly uh guys hearing Austin Stotts younger brother of Randy Stotts will not be making the trip to New Westminster and playing in the man cup so a bit of a hole on the left side there but they still got the likes of Cody Jamison and Shane Jackson and Eric fennel so um there'll be a bit of a drop off there with without Audi in the lineup but you know their back end is star-studded as well with the likes of Kyle rubish and Tyson Bell and Cole so um no shortage of of stars and stunts on either end of the floor and they go too deep and goal as well with Warren Hill and Dougie Jameson so I think both those guys are going to see time throughout this series for for six nations and let's not forget here they got into the to the final here to the man Cup by disposing of the Peterborough Lakers in four straight games in the MSL final Peterborough the four-time defending champions of the man cup and I cannot remember the last time that the Lakers were swept in a final but I think that gives you a pretty good idea how powerful this Chiefs team is okay I can't believe what you're saying about Zach Higgins not being the number one goalie to start the season because everybody I know including members of my family just talk about how he's just stolen things for the assignment buildings all due respect to everybody else on that roster Hey Jake very quickly who wins this thing oh Donnie I can't believe he just did that you know me being a former salmon belly myself uh I would love to see U.S get their 25th man cup it's their eighth crack at it since their last one in 1991 Chiefs last one in 2016. they're going for their seventh also I want to see here fellas is this thing go seven games yep that's it I like that I can't do it you know I've learned over my career Don how important it is to be neutral and unbiased on a series like this and I'm really going to do my best to do yeah I I I get it you don't want to jinx the salmon bellies and you don't want to piss off the salmon bellies that's it by picking uh six Six Nations Jake where can people catch play-by-play quickly again sorry yeah go to wlalacrosse.com for all your your information on the man cup if you want to go directly to the stream it is on a website called playfulscreen.com Jake thanks so much for this my pleasure guys thanks for having me you bet uh Jake Elliott doing play-by-play for the man cup WLA lacrosse.com