#125 The King Of Ilya's Court

The NHL Draft and Free Agency have come and gone, so now's the time hockey fans start to go stir-crazy. Yelling at Bieber!?! You should be ashamed of yourselves! Anyways, Pete shares an anecdote of futility and we discuss Ilya Kovalchuk getting the hell out of Dodge. Dodge, New Jersey. That's where the arena is, right? I can't make any sense of that state. 

The trailer for NHL94 mode in NHL14(with obnoxious voice-over)

and then...

What goes better with hockey than punk rock? Wrestling? Yes, Wrestling.

We're joined for an interview by Arda Ocal. Arda is one of professional wrestling's best known media personalities. He was the creator and host of Aftermath, a WWE post-show on The Score Network(now Sportsnet 360) in Canada. He's currently a columnist for The Baltimore Sun and is involved with The Layfield Report, a writing project with WWE commentators John Layfield and Micheal Cole that is raising funds for underprivileged kids.

***Originally forgot to add Arda's Youtube channel featuring great interviews with wrestlers and other personalities.***

Arda also happens to be a die-hard hockey fan, particulary for his hometown team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. He's a play-by-play commentator for the Leafs' American Hockey League affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.

Note: There's some distortion during the interview, I wasn't able to clean it all up. My apologies, I hope it's not too distracting.

Former Marlies coach Dallas Eakins takes over the Edmonton Oilers

CM Punk's 'Shoot' promo

-WWE NXT(airs on SN360 in Canada but is only available on Hulu Plus in the States, though may move to a cable network soon)

"The Generic Luchador" El Generico(now Sami Zayn in NXT)

One of the great women wrestlers in NXT is Emma.

I'll leave it to With Leather's Brandon Stroud to rundown why she(and her entrance) are so great:

If you’re new to NXT (because of this column or otherwise), Emma’s entrance has several important steps: (1) her hilariously obnoxious entrance theme, which should never be changed (2) the dance, which you already know about (3) Emma BEING AFRAID OF BUBBLES (4) everyone in the crowd doing the Emma dance, because she’s the most over person on the show (5) the best part of the dance, when she’s at the ring apron and basically mimes Triple H’s entrance, but with DANCE ARMZ (6) an attempt to “skin the cat,” which does not always work (7) happy dancing for ring entrance success!

Read more: http://withleather.uproxx.com/2013/05/the-best-and-worst-of-wwe-nxt-52913/2#ixzz2YoLrTcKp

Read Brandon's Raw & NXT Best & Worst columns. Do it.

-If your interested in writing for The Layfield Report, send a sample to layfieldreportcontest@gmail.com.

Music This Week:

Shape Of Punk To Come by Refused(Intro)

Failed States by Strike Anywhere

Never Going Back To New Jersey by Less Than Jake

Count Your Bruises by The Flatliners(Interlude)

Welcome To Hell by Get Dead(Their new record Bad News is coming out July 23rd on Far Wreck Chords and is available for pre-order here!)

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