A gamer. Currently, the president of the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, he was with them for 14 seasons during his career in the n. H. L. Served this captain of the kings during the 9293 season retired as the highest scoring left winger in n. H. L. History. And i think though hes gone past some goals, but i think luke, my last film hes on the show, he might still be dyess who are in, in 2017. He was named one of the 100 greatest n. H. L. Players in history. And folks, you can move that 25 greatest players and n. H. L. History. This is a great look robotized. How are you, my friend, during great. Its good to see you. Again, brother. You know what . I was always its so funny to me. Look, you know, i know its hard to make the long run with the team now from rocky, all the way through, but i always look back on the kings that im trying to think. How did they meet taylor like just side of town . I think he was the g. M. Then when i started, look at the numbers and he was the all time game guy. Things really you know, out of hand, all of a sudden youre a 2nd. I think youre 3rd now because of brownie, but it always made me laugh. I thought, how did they let luke robots i its out. What do you remember about that sees, you know, went down that you said im going to have to call him and see if that was the one. The reason you know its sports is funny. You know, things happen and you really never know. And, you know, sometimes when i was a player you would think something was personally, you get upset if you got traded them, want to, i got on the other side now and have been at it long enough that you realize that nothings personal. Its 2 members in charge and 9, they believe theyre going to make the team a certain way to win. And sometimes theres different pressure behind the scenes that none of us know, like about budget and so forth. And probably never know exactly what was the reasoning behind the reason i left. But now i know that it was not personal. They really thought at that time they were doing the best thing for the team and, and they want to, along with their moves and theres nothing you could do. I mean, new england, the pitcher has done it a 1000000 times. It is just the way it is. Yeah, youre right, lucas. I watch brady the other night. I watch joe montana at the end and achieve suna form. Yeah, i guess it does get mad to business. How do you, you know, it must be so hard, especially in hockey, where theres such a spread, a core, such camaraderie. I mean, i even watched the thing with prober a documentary and now after he left got his life got troubled. But even after he left, it falls more part because theres not the, i dont know the band of brothers sort of thing. How have you found, be in a Front Office Guy . Does it fill up any of that juice, or is it just a completely different life . Well, did juice is still there, you know, where you, you know, its kind of fun to work for a team that is somewhat winning in everything youre doing and youre building the organization the best you see fit, that will give you a chance to win a championship. And from that standpoint, i find it exciting and you know, i washed away the game is played to, im like, oh my god is no way i could get out there would hurt so bad. You know, some kind of glad im on the other side. But that being said, its just as much fun in a different way. I mean theres nothing that can replace playing a game being in that locker room and playing with your teammates and sticking up for the show. Theres something about playing, especially hockey. Its all about the team, you know, its all about the logo and so forth. But, but the 2nd best thing is to be on the other side and still be involved with the team that you love so much. And for me that thats been great. You know its, its funny when i watch the game now. And hockey is my favorite sport. I mean i, i just love the fact that hockey players in a way they police their own. Its tough to be a big timer at hockey. Because i think in the not only guys on the other team, i think guys on your team will grab you as a young guy and say, listen, brother, weather. When this isnt how we do it here. Youve got to, youve got to get in. You know, you dont have to be a complete square, but you cant, you cant be an idiot about this. So its my favorite sport. When i watched it this year, i remember thinking and even even modern times are encroaching and my favorite sport at some point. I remember a couple years ago for instance, look when they had thing about you couldnt put ice chips up on the go as a for gods sakes. I never stop punch him black, where earth johnny by hour and those guys they were in an ice storm for the last few years of their career. You never even saw that seemed like a worse role to me. And now when i watch the offside play the 2 minutes later, theres a goal scored an egg old back into the archives to find out of the guy skate played, wasnt on the ice. Its just that part of its drive me crazy, but its still the best game in the world. I think youre right. I mean definitely the game is changes. Things have changed. That there is funny. The funny thing about today is if you spray a goalie, you know, when you something from the refreeze will deal with that in neal days, it was never the referee to just let the guys on the ice deal with it. And now as of now is a lot, a lot more painful. So thats why you saw that happen a lot less than you see, it happened that day. You know, you know, theres things that, i mean, our game is gone so fast, i think even for the referees and lines was hard for me. The d. V. D. All side rule. Ill tell you. I like it because i play with gretzky. Ok, and i always, this is what i tell the kids a comin to as a lesson i play, were going gretzky and he was a god you know, when in is their own, that deleting score would get 1125. 00 points a unique amy did 200. 00 points a year and i tell him, i said in those days the red line was involved in the, in a play and i said, i never saw one gretzky go out of sight. And because of that, he probably picked up an extra 2025 points a year because he was smart enough to bring his feedback stick and go and stay on site all the time because he knew that would give him a chance to go. Theres things you can do to gretzky was doing, but that you cant. You dont have to be dumb enough to lift your foot to make sure its an outside to me, its like the only reason you lift a foot over the other one is because youre scared you think youve got to get hits or youre rushing a play or you really are not paying attention or you dont, because you know, youre really not baited tenders. Libata, you dont resign the line and just let the far go and well listen a guy with your cache that will make me think long and hard about it. Just as a fan, i sub absolutes and i think geez, i hate that there. Strobing it down to frame by frame now. But i guess the tech, the only exit exists and thats what you happen to know if you notice what, when i see a player is going to his right foot inside the zone and his left was a month and i see him just gently lifting his left foot mike, why, why would you do that . Just doesnt make sense to me. Well, i tell you one thing about wayne is and obviously im just a fan. Ive met him a couple times. What a gentleman and what a cool guy. You know, hes not, it was either hes just a match, but he always saw it like Bobby Fischer playing chess. I mean his bang, bang bang. Its like when you watch an old episode of star trek and this mr. Spocks like 3 moves down the board. That was wayne, i made it was, he was a freakin hockey, i. Q. Genius. In addition to being a physical, you know, anomaly, but what a smart cat. Yeah, he was a good things for us to make. So we know it, like i remember not saying that one after the game would know everyone on both teams, how many goals and assists they got no matter what the score was. He knew that he was aware of everyone in the ass on both side. Then there are so many times to look funny off in hockey, it always shifts every minute for people that dont know as much about hockey. Even when if your life, when you watch your left winger and if your left winger comes to the bench, you go, whoa wayne was always aware what was going on on the ice, and if a guy would come to the bench and the next player wasnt ready, one would just jump because he knew we were short end of the men. He just was that aware. And i remember even watching a game where the action would go, although on the left side of the rink, everybodys looking left and youd hear waynes voice goes to really meant he was somehow figure out of that. They were doing it for the other team. And before the referee or anybody would sit in a building, its amazing how or where you were the game within the game its. Theres no one like him and as far as that is just so youre right. It was like, bobby fisher. Just a genius. Just a genius, everyone said, lets are not, you know, i was saying earlier in the intro, look at most boggle, your mind, young boy in montreals dont know who the habs had back when you were a kid who is stevie shaddai. I always remember from that era toronto, the big am was a killer left winger. It just boggles my mind that as you went from those frozen pawns, to blowing past guys who must have been, i caught it as a youth, the musket surrealistic in your head right until you went to growing up in montreal because the canadians were shogun, you know, me know, as in the 70s they won 4. Consider. Oh, i mean innes, i think when you do last 8 games or next year to last, well, so we never saw them lose and so forth. And then next again, no are like maybe 10 years later making any channel. And this was just a dream. I never even set out for it. I dont even know if it could happen and ill never forget one day i was doing an interview postgame i had like a little bit of a good run, maybe 4 or 5 games, where weve goals and a reporter asked me, goes you excited about your next goal and im like, well, what do you mean by that . And he said, well, your next goal was tied to rocket rashard. And for me growing up in montreal, thats like growing up in the us and someone keeps telling you stories. Well babe ruth and so forth. You know Mickey Mantle and then youre sitting as a kid, a kid friends getting women. Im going to tie the rocket research. I do recall i was a little bit almost embarrassed about it because it was like the rocket rashard. Im going to be time that didnt seem real. Theres a pretty, pretty cool, you know, look when you look back on those original 6 and folks you have to remember. Im just saying, im a hockey, that i can agree. And nobody follows it closely if you can believe that at one point their early sixtys eves and you think about the wealth of talent that was being funny and old and an ass and 620. 00 parts 20 parts and teams. You really had crammed the crab and when you look back, you look at always boggles my mind when i see terry saw chuck going down and he does not have a mascot. Its absolutely boggles your mind to think these guys played that down and dirty at that fight. I mean, its amazing. I did every once in a while, a washy n. H. L. No wonder showing all games. Im just like, i cant believe these guys had no mask. And you see them, theyre diving left and right. Even though the shots were in the same the stick. But i remember watching like on bobby always, he figured out a curve a stick him and send me cute and it would come down and roof it like goalies will freak and he was shooting in their heads and they had no mass. Could you imagine thats crazy . What weve been looking back a little in this 1st segment folks, but thats what i want to pick up in the 2nd segment. I want to talk about where the league goes from here. I want to talk about where the kings go from here. I want to talk about some of those young players. I also want to talk about how yeah, sure. Out. Arguably, one of the greatest goalies of all time quickie. I mean, out of the baby face assess one of my favorites of all time. And you know, careers happen and what will have to see what, what we do in a day new. Well talk about all that with the president of the kings. The great looks robot side. And look, just before we split, are you still the leading left wing points guy . I know ovies up about 700 go where you are now its why still number one . I honestly dont think to look like to look robots. I right up to this on Dennis Miller plus one. What can we expect from them by getting ministration when it comes to russia . As things stand today, relations are brought up by these horrific is replete with hardliners in the east with a long record of policy failure. To get worse, was always on the most rational big city bright lights. Its also a city where up 2300000 crimes are committed before the last one in the new mosque. The result least one Police Officer for every 200 residents in russias capital that will not go along with the muslim. Hey folks. Welcome back to Dennis Miller plus one more talkin to l. A. Kings president , one of the greatest hockey players look robot tie. And look, tell me about what gets of the league in the medicines, but tell me about the kinks. Tell me about a couple of these youngsters and tell me where youre at with quickly in a few of the other guys whove been around browning for a while. Its funny, even i put on the end of all hockey players names, i guess its some honorarium. They dont really know what really theyre in a certain degree. You know, youre in the game. Tell me about the youngsters weve got coming up. Look, you know, were, we feel like were pretty loaded with, you know, the, all the outside experts seem to put us in the top 2 or 3 of a prospect coming up the last couple years. You know, we havent treated any young draft choices 2017, so weve hung on to all of those kids since 2008 and 7. When diena bharti came on board and weve established your Development Group to make sure these guys will get their next step and learn to what it means to become a kenyan plane. You know what your organisation with the most, im, a player in the n. H. L. You know . Did you think it means but deplaning, mitchell, so were very competent with this group tulloch, you were talking earlier, put your Team President had on that speeded speed kill. Its all a skill but speed more important than ever. And this leg i used to always think of it. Its like in baseball, you build strong up the middle or the double play Tennis Center fielder or the catcher. And i think used to think about that sudden degree and hockey build strong up the center has a change. Now, what are you, what are you looking for . Just speed everywhere or whats the key directive for somebody whos running a team will because were in a camp league and it makes it really hard to hang onto. Everyones because, you know, you can only have so much my for the whole group. You really want to focus on your top 7 corporate say which you know, its a goalie, its a number one defense or like george dowdy. Then you want to have a 2nd defense or not help you. And then you, you want to have your 1st 2 centers, Number One Center 2nd line center. So thats 5, and then you want to count have 8. You know, when your doc can break a game open, what one shot you know, like a purely ball or deck and really make a difference. And then then the next, the next guy out of and ends up being 7. It could be either another way or, or a 3rd defenseman. I probably would prefer their defensemen. You really focus a think a much yacc, any of that, the big 3 and kind of love when it team has 2 or 3 defensemen that you could count on them 100 percent of the time. But if you have those 7 guys and you focus on them and add the right character, the right players, then everybody else around is guys. Theyre either young coming up. Or if theyre stablish, they know exactly their role. If they know and understand their role for the benefit of the organization, and they play hard and that role, you know, a lot of games. Yeah, the cap league is a heartbreaker mad because there are times when guys come along like Justin Williams and you know youve got to move a lot or earlier. Theres only so much money to go around and im glad he got the agur. And i think i think you got another cop. I remember 2nd, but it seems to me went to washington. But you lose guys like that boy, that is a better pill as a. Yeah not. No, youre right. I thought for a 2nd d. D. Would never come. No, he did, nobody go really close because he helped establish it in washington. Care cultured anyone to carolyn and ledecky. Remember that hes down and murdered there. All the fun. Something were in to do in postgame the crazy. There were stories that want to start it up, but yeah, guys like that. We missed him once we left, but we had no room to keep him. So makes it really hard and youve got to make some hard choices at some point. You know, its funny whenever you watch any sports, like a man or do somebody who runs the leg be it could l. Be it. You know, the cat or replaced by adam silver over in the n. B. A. There. They always get booed. But im telling you over the years ive got, ive grown 5, i think better runs and i shot fire. I really know. And i think i think the link played this covert thing about a smartish a can this year. What are your thoughts . Yeah, i think i think it gary and everybody believed it. I remember we were nose meanies before and he was talking goes look, were not going to rush it. Were going to make sure we do it right. And you know, up to the last i think within a week, but its time to decide where to go. It was still we were talking about mean b, b, l, e v one ups they were texas and they waited and waited. Next again, no one day heard. Like in, in, in canada they were less cases. They said, lets go there. And now is the real main reason they built these hubs and they did a really good job and they knew the players, hockey players are pretty disciplined, you know . So they knew i was going to set it up and did a good job. I mean, you talk to the guys who seem a day really enjoy trauner. Oh, they thought in minton was not. There was not as much to do, but it still was really well done. And i thought for the league to be able to finish just season and doing it. What us that wished. Tramp. Yeah, you didnt see as many Tampa Bay Lightning players kiss in the cup here. Folks not, not to attack me. Not inside. Be sure. Sharing a common metallic object on the left is there after i did see if you guys drink, you know, as i own, come on guys. Its not the time. Thats one of the, one of the best things about hockey is in a way no game takes itself more seriously. And another way and no game takes it so i can have a little fun with that thing at the end. Then i guess they had to do away with it this year with a shake. Hands at the end of the series is just an amazing thing. I think ive only seen one guy over the entire time. Ive been watching hockey. You wouldnt shake. It was a cat who came out from boston dart team for a while, and this is the same disc a mod for here to play for the bruins. They came out here, i think one year