during the vietnam war, u.s. forces also bombs neighboring laos. it was a secret war. and for years, the american people did not know how much it is, especially the country per capita. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs drops decades ago because the us making amends for the tragedy and loss to the people need in that little folks. next up on that, a similar plus one will talk to the president of the l.a. kings hockey organization. luke robotized, doing

a bang up job. now rebuilding the king's cupboard went bare for a while, but they'll be back. got a lot of young studs will talk to him about that. also arguably, the greatest left winger in the history of people going to say, oh, bob levey, which but you look at the numbers, you look at the ration looks right up there with talk to luke, wrote the tie right up to this that a similar plus one hey folks. welcome to dennis miller plus one. great soccer little off season park. i don't even know when the season starts up again. it seems like it just ended a month ago, and i think they're probably going to be ready to go after christmas. sometime we're talking to arguably the greatest left winger ever play the game. i know you got to think about ovi. you got to think about. i don't see future. it was

a few guys. i dicked, but when my man luke robots, i step dad. he had thrown up the numbers and he was 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 he's gone past some goals, but i think look by last may's on the shelf, he might still be the highest scorer in 2017. he was named one of the 100 greatest n.h.l. players in history and folks, you can move that 25 greatest flyers and n.h.l. history. this is a great look. prototype, how are you, my friend? during great, it's good to see you. again, brother. you know what? i was always, it's so fun to have a look in. i know it's hard to make the long run with the team now from rocky all the way through. but i always look back on the kids that i'm trying to think. how did they meet taylor like just side of town? i think he was the g.m.

. then i started looking at the numbers and he was the all time game guy. change. you know, out of hand, all of a sudden you're a 2nd. i think you're 3rd now because of brown did it, but it always made me laugh. i thought, how did they let luke robots? i it's not. what do you remember about that sees, you know, went down the you said i'm going to call him and see if that was the one. the reason you know it's 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 personal or you get upset if you got treated them want to. i got on the other side now and i've been at it long enough that you realize that nothing's personal. it's 2 members in charge and 9, they believe they're going to make the team a certain way to win. and sometimes there's different pressure behind a scene that none of us know, like about budget and so forth. and i'll 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 it time. they were doing the best thing for the team and, and they want to, along with their moves and there's nothing you can do. i mean new england, the pitcher has done it a 1000000 times. it is just the way it is. yeah, you're right, lucas, i watch brady. the other night. i watch joe montana at the end then 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 there's such a spree to core such camaraderie. i mean, i even watched the thing with probert a documentary and now after he left, got his life got troubled. but even after he left, that falls more part because there's not, i don't 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, the juice is still there, you know, where, you know, it's kind of fun to work for a team because some of the winning in everything you're doing is you're 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, i'm like, oh my god is no way i could get out there would hurt so bad. you know, some kind of glad i'm on the other side. but that being said, it's just as much fun in a different way. i mean there's nothing that can replace playing a game being in that locker room and playing with your teammates and sticking up for the show, there's something i'm a player, especially hockey. it's all about the team, you know, it's all about the logo and so forth. but, but the 2nd best thing is to be on the other side and still be involved that with the team that you love so much and for me to, that's been great. you know it's, it's 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. it's 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 isn't how we do it here, you got to, you got to get it. you know, you don't have to be a complete square, but you can't, you can't be an idiot about this. so it's 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 couldn't put ice chips up on the go as a for god's 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. 1 that seemed like a was troll bait. and now when i watch the offside play the 2 minutes later, there's a goal scored an egg old back into the archives to find out of the guy skate played, wasn't on the ice. it's just that part of it's drive me crazy,

but it's still the best game in the world. i think you're right. i mean, definitely the game is changes, things have changed that dez 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 that's why you saw that happen a lot less than you see it happened the day, you know, you know, there's 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. onside rule, i'll tell you. i like it because i play with gretzky. ok, and i always this is what i tell the kids accommodate as a listener i play with. and he was a god, you know, when in is their own, that deleting score would get $1125.00 points a year and he came in 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 and go and stay on site all the time because he knew that would give him a chance to go. there's things you can do to gretzky was doing, but that you can't. you don't have to be dumb enough to lift your foot to make sure it's an outside to me, it's like the only reason you lift a foot over the other one is because you're scared you think you've got to get hits or you're rushing a play or you really are not paying attention or you don't, because you know, you're really not baited tenders. libata, you don't 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 that's 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 has a month and i see him just gently lifting his left foot mike, why, why would you do to have it just doesn't make sense to me. well, i tell you one thing about wayne as an obviously, i'm just a fan. i've met him a couple times. what a gentleman and what a cool guy. you know, he's not, it was either he's just a match, but he always saw it like bobby fischer playing chess. i mean his bang, bang bang. it's like when you watch an old episode of star trek and this mr. spock's 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 like funny af, in hockey, it always shifts every minute for people that don't 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 was going on on the ice, and if a guy would come to the bench and the next player wasn't 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, everybody's looking left and you'd hear wayne's voice goes to. ringback 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. it's amazing how or where you were the game within the game it's. there's no one like him and as far as that is just so you're right. it was like, bobby fisher. just a genius. just a genius. everyone said, let's are not. you know,

i was saying earlier in the intro, look at most boggle, your mind, young boy in montreal's don't 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 so good. you know, mean there was a, in the 70s that one for 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 don't even know if it could happen and i'll never forget one day i was doing an interview post-game i had like a little bit of a good run, maybe 4 or 5 games, where we've goals and a reporter asked me, goes you excited about your next goal and i'm like, who do you mean by that?

and he said, well, your next goal was tied to rocket rashard. and for me growing up in montreal, that's like growing up in the us and someone keeps telling you stories will babe ruth and so forth. you know mickey mantle and then you're sitting as a kid, a kid friends getting women. i'm going to tie the rocket research. i do recall i was a little bit almost embarrassed about it because it was like a rock and rashard. i'm going to be time that didn't seem real. there's a pretty, pretty cool, you know, look when you look back on those original 6 and folks you have to remember. i'm just saying, i'm a hockey, that i can agree. and nobody follows it closely if you can believe that at one point their early sixty's 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 have to cram 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. it's absolutely boggles your mind to think these guys played that down and dirty at that fight. i mean, it's amazing. i did every once in a while, a washy n.h.l. . no wonder showing all games. i'm just like, i can't believe these guys had no mask. and you see them, they're 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 he would come down and roof it like goalies will freak and he was shooting in their heads and they had no mask. could you imagine that's crazy? what we've been looking back a little in this 1st segment folks, but that's 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,

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hey folks. welcome back to dennis miller plus one. we're talkin to l.a. kings president, one of the greatest hockey players look robotized and look to me, but what will 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 you're at with quickie in a few of the other guys who've been around browning for a while. it's funny, even i put on the end of all hockey players names, i guess it's some honorarium. they don't really know what they're in a certain degree. you know, you're in the game. tell me about the youngsters we've got coming up. look, you know, we're, we feel like we're 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 haven't treated any young draft choices. 2072 we've hung on to all of those

kids since you 1008 and 7. when dina barty came on board and we've established your development group to make sure these guys will get their next step and learn to what it means to become explaining in plain units, you know what your organization with the most, i'm a player in the n.h.l. you know, did you think it means but deplaning, mitchell, so we're very competent with this group tulloch, you were talking earlier, put your team president had on that speeded speed kill. that's all a skill, but speed, more important than ever. and this leg i used to always think of it, it's 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 what's the key directive for somebody who's running a team will because we're in a camp league and it makes it really hard to hang on to everyone's because, you know, you can only have so much my for the whole group. you really want to focus on your

top 7 corpore, say which, you know, if it's a goalie, it's 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 that's 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 pure goal 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, the 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 add those 7 guys and you focus on them and add the right character, the right players, then everybody else around is guys are either young coming up,

or if they're stablish, they know exactly their role. if they know and understand their role for the benefit of the organization, and they play hard at 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 you've got to move a lot or earlier. there's only so much money to go around and i'm 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, you're right. i thought for a 2nd, if you were in the come, no, you did, nobody go really close because he helped establish it in washington. care cultured anyone to carolyn and ledecky. remember that he's down and murdered there all the fun. so there were to do in post-game the there were stories that want to started out, 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 you've got to make

some hard choices at some point. you know, it's funny whenever you watch any sports, like a man or do somebody who runs the leg be, it could now be it. you know, the cat are replaced by adam silver over in the n.b.a. there. they always get booed. but i'm telling you over the years i've got, i've 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 gary and everybody in the league. i remember we were nose meetings before and he was talking goes, look, we're not going to rush it. we're going to make sure we do it right. and you know, up to the last, i think within a week by the time they decided to where to go, it was so we were talking about me me d, l a b want ups. they were texas and they waited and waited. next again, no one they heard like in, in,

in canada they were less cases. they said let's 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, it seem a day really enjoy trauner. oh, they thought in minton was not. that 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 tram the ball. yeah, you didn't see as many tampa bay lightning players kiss in the cup this year. folks, not, not the time may not be shared, sharing a common metallic object on the left there after i did see if you guys drink, you know, as i own, come on guys this time that's 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 it. that thing at the end then i guess they had to do away with that this year where they shake hands at the end of the series is just an amazing thing. i think i've only seen one guy over the entire time. i've been watching hockey. you wouldn't shake. it was a cat who came out from boston dart team for a while, and this is the same disc a mod for a year to play for the bruins. they came out here, i think one year he was so pissed off, he wouldn't shake hands with somebody yet, but the other one did i see? didn't shake hands. i'm unturned. remember i have the name of a governor. i can remember. he'll come back to me. but the other guy was marty berger when she shawnee rees him. remember that when you're wondering if it's weird the way the after you tube the savory video where he just gets in front of rodoreda. he has this like out of outside the,

on the low plot. worry thinks this guy's been beaten, our brains in for ages. i'm just going to completely shadow and like, and stay right in front of the do this and bro do or just it's just crazy. you know, way i made it in another way by good for a very least. that's probably the only way you could meet martin road or when i was at your game. robert, i mean if you only stop playing, try to block is viewed. i was, there was a point, is there a risk? i love that i love the fact though that when they do get the cop, everybody seems to get a day with the cop. if you've ever seen that footage, it's a guy's take it back there and canoes. with it there, i guess a lot of the players are dotted manhattan beach. you'll see it bartender in manhattan beach. it's just absolutely hilarious. how they treat the cup. were to take it on your day when you and i try to think of the jeffery the jeopardy. had it . yeah. when i was in detroit, i won in and wherever marine, and the time is. i always said if i win guys to the guys that i knew in l.a.

that we used to play hockey on monday nights. you know what bruckheimer and all the, guys said. if i would try someone to bring back in l.a., so iconic that summer when it was my time, i brought it back here and it was kind of good because chris chelios had it in malibu too. so we ended up having it for 3 full days. so i had a big party on that on a saturday, and it was in my house and i thought i'd get maybe a couple 100 people i think weighed up with 350 was just totally out of control. and then the next, next day it was really cool because we got a permit to bring it right below the hollywood sign. so we hunker down and went to the hollywood sign. the only problem they didn't figure out is a hard to picture was going to be, have to be taken because it had to be in the street all the way down below. but we got some course. we took it to universal studio. we actually took it on the jurassic park ride and then remember universal. i had to get back to cup before the

big drop there. not drastic part. right. and then we took it to do if we took the dodger stadium. i mean, it was kind of funny because that day when i went to dodger stadium, tommy lasorda was there and i set up with them. but they were playing atlanta. and tom glavine was, it was on a team in atlanta. and back in the draft in 1984. tom glavine said he would never play hockey and i was joked with people that people said, man, you got drafted in one thrown by the king. i go. yeah, but the funny thing is, tom glavine said he would never play hockey and the king still drafted him. ahead of me in the 4th round, so i said, that's how much of a good guy says, i'll never play hockey. i'm going to play baseball. he was drafted in the 4th round this french guy, or what is there such a picture? what it had, you know, you have a mad skills, you know, it's funny as i recently, i went out to bellwood out there and my friend john mcenroe. he's right near cheli

. he works out with them every day. he said he thinks jelly could get the ice to morrow and still are not. but he is a beast like he's a machinist's guy, works out all the too easy. only player like dennis, like i used to see like he, he kind of, you know, eat like to go out everyone. so, but he would come back from the bar sometime and go to the rink, and he would ride the bike for like half hour, 45 minutes inside the sauna, and full steam, and the prime minister seen anybody. what i did might not have our inside asuna, and he would do that every day and then he would get on the ice be the hardest working guy, not the time when i was play were in use like 394 years old. he was unbelievable. he really is a machine. yeah, guys like him and messiaen just to prove the church definition of hockey players and leaders. well we've been talking to one of the greats folks. he's currently the president los angeles kings, but 14 seasons in the n.h.l.

. and that, as i said earlier, arguably the greatest left winger who ever played the game unit said that you could have that. chad, i know it's not all stat based, but i'm talking my man will be shy, but you can seriously have that conversation for a young kid coming out of montreal. go on a nights route. that is heavy wind, brother, you must the head over the years fall and a fall and that are not good for you baby. you maxed it out and that life's good yappy. yeah. life's good. we're just we were looking to get back. hopefully we get back at work playing in early january, so they'll be fine. you know, just to, just to get going, then, you know, i'm don't think we'll have too many people in the stands at 1st, but hopefully we get to a point where we can, we can bring our fans back in, you know, we can, we, can we get supreme you want to get going to meet and every one of us are going to miss a mess and a lot best sport in a world folks wrestling the national hockey league. good to talk to about talk to

down the road. have a happy holiday. ok. thank you later getting rid memory. this is dennis miller plus one. join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics, sports business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy going for and let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development. only mostly i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. it's very critical time to sit down and talk

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