Paul Lawless Part 3 | Jimmy's Gems

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This Jimmy's Gems Paul Lawless Special continues with part 3 at Georgy Porgy’s Grill & Bar. 0:00 Question time. Mail bag. How did you like wearing the Cooperall pants? What if you had to go pee?   4:00 Prank Alert: Nailing GM Bobby Clarke’s shoes to the ceiling.   6:30 Keeping your customers happy with grilled chicken wings.   9:30 Hartford Whalers Alumni annual reunions.   13:00 Staying in shape. Diet is key. Daily hiking in hills of Arizona.   15:00 Missing the burn of playing.   19:00 Crazy hockey parents.   20:00 If you’re any good you don’t need to tell anybody about it.   21:00 Paul had never even heard of Auston Matthews in Scottsdale but is good friends with Auston’s attorney.   22:30 Why would Auston resign with Leafs when he could live in the Baja?   27:00 Where we get into Kennedy conspiracy theories.   29:00 Anthem in background for Toronto-San Jose. Q: Anthems the most boring part of game? Intermissions.   31:00 Paul loves people in hockey more than management.   Paul scores 6 points vs Leafs on anniversary of father’s death on January 4th.   33:00 Goaltender Hextal was superstitious. Paul sat next to him in dressing room and never talked to him. A weird cat - like most goalies.   36:00 Summer hockey was the best part of my career.   38:00 Favourite ref: Ron Finn.   42:00 Today’s locker rooms. Tippet takes Paul into Coyotes’ room: every player has an ipad. Tippet is a student of the game.   46:00 Paul was an internal rebel. As a player you’ve got a job to do in a controlled environment. You’re a piece of meat.   47:00 Dave Semeko’s Five Lies of Hockey:   1. I’m only going for one. 2. My roommate’s asleep. 3. The cheque’s in the mail. 4. It flipped up on me. 5. It’s not how I do personally, as long as the team wins.   It’s all about you. As long as you’re making the dough.   50:00 Chris: The Patrik Steffan Miss   57:00 Semenko such a great guy. Pancreatic cancer. Gretzky and Sather said they would fly him anywhere in the world to the best doctors.   59:00 Breaking curfew. Paul and Semeko go out for one last night and Semenko retires from Leafs and the game. His book: Taking Care of Number One. Coach John Brophy was too much.   1:01:00 Brophy would put Iafrate on a bike in the sauna to sweet off weight.   1:04:00 You don’t want to sweat too hard in the first two periods because your equipment gets too heavy. You save it for the third and you fly.   …   References   Baja   Santo Tropicante   The Patrik Steffan Miss