Stapleton also came to the rink late and practice had started and when he walked in the room the equipment guy was gassing himself with the oxygen mask on.
The KHL began to clean itself up after Lockomotive's dilapidated plane crashed on takeoff and killed everyone on board, including a bunch of former NHL players, several of whom were former stars and Stanley Cup winners;
This is Russia. It is something else. My friend played there for two years and I have heard the same stories. Even day before home game, the players stay in a hotel with security so they don't get drunk. All the vitamins and stuff, true stories. But there are few teams who play in KHL who are not in Russia, mainly the only western team Jokerit in Finland. It is a whole new world. Everything is legal and well operated like expected. Like all leagues is Western Europe are. Finnish Liiga, SHL in Sweden, Swiss League, German league... All operating as expected.
That team's name is "Vityaz" (Витязь) and back in the days, it was based in Checkhov, Moscow Region. I remember the time when Jeremy, Mirasty, Gratton were playing for Vityaz and that game with Avangard when almost the whole team got 5+20. P.S. I used to live in that town :-) Good times, the owner's name was Николай Павлинов (Nikolai Pavlinov), he's serving a time now for some kind of big-time money laundry scheme
remember that. Their strategy was basically beat up the other teams players to win the game:) Im kinda dissapointed the KHL stopped them from using that strategy anymore. was very entertaining.
@@phreddy87 Yeah, the goal for the other team was to have as close a score as possible, otherwise Vityaz would send their goons to beat the crud out of them
I played golf with Josh McGratton. At the time he was home from playing in Russia. If you look up tough in the dictionary, there would be a picture of him. What a great guy. He didn't tell any stories but you knew he was for real. I hope he is well. Even on the golf course I was ready to turtle. Lol.
Finnish player Petri Kontiola told a story about KHL when after the season Last practice, the owner of the team came into the rink and gave Cash money to all players. Top players got top dollars and so on. He said he gave him 500.000euros In 500euro bills. You cant bring this to Finland without problems so he hide the money Inside hockey sticks. Like said In this clip it is all mafia In Russia.
KHL has been wild, but a lot of the stories Paul is telling here are from wilder times in the early years of KHL. This day and age, the Mafia controlled teams that he is talking about here are no longer in the league. Mostly the teams are owned by massive industrial conglomerates now - it's not the same anymore.
@@AK-74K yes, I think I heard this story 10years ago. Mafia in Russia has penetrated the society from top to bottom, its not the same as In united states for example. If you want to bring your business to Russia you have to have permission from corrupted officials, Mafia In Russia is largerely In legitimate businesses.
@@vili1 Yes, but it's outward face has changed. The State has absorbed a lot of the criminal structures and the same wildness isn't there. I am certain there aren't club owners paying players in cash, or threatening umpires with murder anymore. It's a much more professional face now as the nature of the corruption in the country is different now.
@@AK-74K Nah you're wrong. They aren't as ruthless anymore as in the early days but a ton of shit goes on. I personally know this due to a family member who currently plays in the KHL for the last 10 years, and always hear new stories about shit.
@@lameloball2867 What club does he play for? I am very confident in what I am saying, I am Russian myself (living in the West now) and I am in touch with what is going on there still. Not saying the country isn't corrupt, but there Wild East era of the 90s and early 00s is done.
@@jon8004 I don't know for a fact, but have my suspicions he's about 2 to 4 years older than he says. It'd make what he's doing even more impressive though 😂 I remember Kovalchuk made comments about how they played on a youth team together despite Kovalchuk being 2 years older among other things but no actual smoking gun
He`s talking about those Vityaz teams back in the day. They were shit but always had like 4 fighters that started shit at the end of games because they always lost.
"Vitamins" lol. The teaching how to fight makes utter sense....fighting is part of the game you want to have at least preliminary knowledge on how to stay strong on your skates and hold on correctly so you don't get hurt in a potentially avoidable way. I garauntee that happens in some capacity here in the u.s. maybe not at that young of an age or not in an institutionalized fashion but an after or before practice "clinic" type deal.
I thought Euro Hockey had much less fighting. I dont remember seeing the Red Army team ever fighting. Heck Bobby Clark brought on of their players ankles with a slash, and they not even really retaliate.
@@atlas2583 lol no fair catches so there’s always a return on punts, less downs so more deep balls... passing game is much more important with the 3 downs... 20 second play clock so the game is faster paced
The CFL can be a bit more 'exciting' with 3 downs, unlimited WR motion, high scoring affairs. But it is not a superior game. The Rouge needs to go. The goal posts need to be backed up to the 21st century not kept in the 18th. The spin-the-wheel QB game every offseason. Well, the NFL has that this year, but it's a first.
That crazy Russian owner sounds like the old owner of Vityaz Podolsk team. It was a goon team back in the day. The league has changed a lot. That bullshit doesn't fly in Russia so much anymore.
I have a friend who is Russian from Russia and his entire family is super bad ass. The s sounds all very true. Russians are incredibly tough people. Very different culture I don't even know why they are but he is the toughest guy and his family I've ever met. Besides my dad who was a marine from Vietnam
was the coach Hannu Jortikka? He was a coach in a KHL and they lose a game, Jortikka was raging and screaming hes gonna kill all the russians.. Like in 15mins bodyguards gave him that ak-47 gun but Jortikka said okay lets go to the shooting range he needs his players lol
Not in pro but college its rampant. Like I played football even at a small college I'd have meals at nice places paid for, "money handshakes", I can even remember a kid I had coached who was recruited by Oregon giving him $25k in Nike gear then his trip to Michigan where he committed got another $25k in jump man gear and this is a 18 year old getting this mind you, had some friends from Reynoldsburg, Ohio who knew a few top Michigan State running backs who got a couple thousand, yeah its not foreign but also not like mob run as you see here. Most of its just boosters like our big one was a massive paint company who did a lot of this when I played.
@@osu5inarow yeah, money motivates people wherever they are. The only difference between Europe and NA is that there are plenty of mob ran clubs in Europe
osu5inarow I’ve heard about this stuff and it made me wonder why there was a push to pay college players. Them getting an official form of payment that can be traced isn’t advantageous to them. They already get it under the table from boosters like you said and receive a huge marketing boost
Danbury Trashers of the UHL about 15 years ago was mob run. The league itself was mostly $300-400 a week salaries but the owner would give player's family members no-show jobs to get around the salary cap.
Lewan killin it at the Nashville Predators game the other night lol Taylor is from Scottsdale, AZ..... I wonder if he's a fan of the GREAT Auston Matthews?
Having lived in Russia for nearly seven years, I can assure you that none of these stories are particularly surprising or even shocking :-D I definitely have stories, but nothing that anyone who has lived there wouldn't recognize.
Mark Giordano has stories he wont tell in public from his 1 season in the KHL before he made the Flames full time. See if you can tease some good KHL stories out of him.
I was there (KHL) These stories are true. The fighting team was Vityaz Chehov. Mirasty, Yablonski, Brennan, Tarnasky. Coach was the idiot Andrei Nazarov-.No hockey, just fighting.
Any relation to Teemu Pulkkinen? Bernd Bruckler wrote a great book about his experiences in KHL playing for (mainly) Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. His stories about sneaking out of the Baza were hilarious!
Putin’s evil no question but I respect the fact that he’s pretty fit at the age of 50-something in a country where the average life-span is like 54 because of massive vodka intake. I would like to see Putin play with a goalie too.
There are plenty of videos where he plays in a game 5v5 with goalies. Many of those players are Russian hockey legends. But I have to warn you. That's like in that movie the dictator. He sucks but they let him score and be the MVP Funny af XD
The CFL needs something to happen with it. It is very boring to watch it's alot of air ball for a toughdown very little running game. I would love to see the NFL to say ok we are gonna merge your teams into the NFL.
I find some of the stories about KHL too outlandish to believe. Was it the first division, or some very low tier? As for the AK47, I am sure rich American owners travel with armed body guards. Just concealed.
Going to have to say something about putin that he failed to be honest with himself. US president go golfing ( not a sport ) Putin for his age trys to show he is still active and yes putting on a show. Yet when you seen a US president try to play actually sport??? The only fucking time you see a president do something is when he goes to baseball throws a terrible pitch. And yet even one cheers him who ever it is..so what the difference?
@WillinghamWinter well you don’t see all these whiny fringe cultures trying to bull any BS in Russia. Fug dat! They won’t have people who’ve ruined other nations, ruin Russia. They’re not stupid!
This is why I love Biz, he gives the stories about hockey they don't want you to hear.
That time he double teamed your sister wearing a spiderman costume.
Whos they
@@Lynx-lh9it NHL, NBC, ESPN, all the big networks
3 years super league
Best geno quote
KHL looks like PeeWee house league compared to the precursor super league..
Too funny
Wtf is super league Saskatchewan Alberta which province lol super league never heard of it
@@jakewilliams1742 it's from chiclets dude. Are you Rick from Red Deer???
Stapleton also came to the rink late and practice had started and when he walked in the room the equipment guy was gassing himself with the oxygen mask on.
The equipment guy had to prepare himself as well. Lol
Damn I really wish Biz told them the whole Josh Hennessy story, they would have lost their minds.
Facts lol smashing the shot glass after every shot 😂
Acquiring a player because he has the same name has your favorite drink is some fantasy owner shit and I love it
The KHL began to clean itself up after Lockomotive's dilapidated plane crashed on takeoff and killed everyone on board, including a bunch of former NHL players, several of whom were former stars and Stanley Cup winners;
The plane was actually fine, it was only 40% through its service life. The investigation determined it was pilot error.
This is Russia. It is something else. My friend played there for two years and I have heard the same stories. Even day before home game, the players stay in a hotel with security so they don't get drunk. All the vitamins and stuff, true stories. But there are few teams who play in KHL who are not in Russia, mainly the only western team Jokerit in Finland. It is a whole new world. Everything is legal and well operated like expected. Like all leagues is Western Europe are. Finnish Liiga, SHL in Sweden, Swiss League, German league... All operating as expected.
Jokerit was part of the Finnish Liiga until they joined the KHL a few years ago.
@@thomasthomasthomas296 why did they joined the KHL?
@@Latoetnino russian guy bought it i think
There’s also Kunlun Red Star from China. Team from Kazakhstan, maybe Belarus too I think.
@@timdixon32 i know Prague and Bratislava had teams...
Tim Stapleton may be one of the funniest story tellers out there
That team's name is "Vityaz" (Витязь) and back in the days, it was based in Checkhov, Moscow Region. I remember the time when Jeremy, Mirasty, Gratton were playing for Vityaz and that game with Avangard when almost the whole team got 5+20. P.S. I used to live in that town :-) Good times, the owner's name was Николай Павлинов (Nikolai Pavlinov), he's serving a time now for some kind of big-time money laundry scheme
remember that. Their strategy was basically beat up the other teams players to win the game:) Im kinda dissapointed the KHL stopped them from using that strategy anymore. was very entertaining.
@@phreddy87 Yeah, the goal for the other team was to have as close a score as possible, otherwise Vityaz would send their goons to beat the crud out of them
@@kiwinz8268 yeah:) good ole days..
I played golf with Josh McGratton. At the time he was home from playing in Russia. If you look up tough in the dictionary, there would be a picture of him. What a great guy. He didn't tell any stories but you knew he was for real. I hope he is well. Even on the golf course I was ready to turtle. Lol.
I was on the staff of a team he played for. He was a great guy.
That Wheelin’ Feelin’
Finnish player Petri Kontiola told a story about KHL when after the season Last practice, the owner of the team came into the rink and gave Cash money to all players. Top players got top dollars and so on. He said he gave him 500.000euros In 500euro bills. You cant bring this to Finland without problems so he hide the money Inside hockey sticks. Like said In this clip it is all mafia In Russia.
KHL has been wild, but a lot of the stories Paul is telling here are from wilder times in the early years of KHL. This day and age, the Mafia controlled teams that he is talking about here are no longer in the league. Mostly the teams are owned by massive industrial conglomerates now - it's not the same anymore.
@@AK-74K yes, I think I heard this story 10years ago. Mafia in Russia has penetrated the society from top to bottom, its not the same as In united states for example. If you want to bring your business to Russia you have to have permission from corrupted officials, Mafia In Russia is largerely In legitimate businesses.
@@vili1 Yes, but it's outward face has changed. The State has absorbed a lot of the criminal structures and the same wildness isn't there. I am certain there aren't club owners paying players in cash, or threatening umpires with murder anymore. It's a much more professional face now as the nature of the corruption in the country is different now.
@@AK-74K Nah you're wrong. They aren't as ruthless anymore as in the early days but a ton of shit goes on. I personally know this due to a family member who currently plays in the KHL for the last 10 years, and always hear new stories about shit.
@@lameloball2867 What club does he play for? I am very confident in what I am saying, I am Russian myself (living in the West now) and I am in touch with what is going on there still. Not saying the country isn't corrupt, but there Wild East era of the 90s and early 00s is done.
Buddy of mines team mate had to sew 80k in cash in his hockey pants to hide from the Russian mob
Wheeling nailers 🤣
How old do you think Ovi actually is?
12
Man’s 36, and looks like he’s 56.
@@jon8004 I don't know for a fact, but have my suspicions he's about 2 to 4 years older than he says. It'd make what he's doing even more impressive though 😂
I remember Kovalchuk made comments about how they played on a youth team together despite Kovalchuk being 2 years older among other things but no actual smoking gun
@@jon8004 There is evidence. No concrete proof though.
Wheeling nails I grew up 10 minutes from Wheeling an grew up watching nailers! Your awesome man!
He`s talking about those Vityaz teams back in the day. They were shit but always had like 4 fighters that started shit at the end of games because they always lost.
Panarin used to play for them
Hey, I’m from Yaroslavl ... although the description is kind of true
"Vitamins" lol. The teaching how to fight makes utter sense....fighting is part of the game you want to have at least preliminary knowledge on how to stay strong on your skates and hold on correctly so you don't get hurt in a potentially avoidable way. I garauntee that happens in some capacity here in the u.s. maybe not at that young of an age or not in an institutionalized fashion but an after or before practice "clinic" type deal.
I thought Euro Hockey had much less fighting. I dont remember seeing the Red Army team ever fighting. Heck Bobby Clark brought on of their players ankles with a slash, and they not even really retaliate.
THE BOY!!!
Bizz Nasty 😂😂😂😂
Mike Commodore played for the Flames during the 2004 cup run season.
Blitz The League boys…cmon! 🤣🤣🤣
I’m a fan of the NFL and the CFL... all I gotta say is the cfl is still great ball and it’s twice as exciting to watch as the NFL is
Your on crack 😂 you obviously dont watch enough NFL then
@@atlas2583 lol no fair catches so there’s always a return on punts, less downs so more deep balls... passing game is much more important with the 3 downs... 20 second play clock so the game is faster paced
The CFL can be a bit more 'exciting' with 3 downs, unlimited WR motion, high scoring affairs. But it is not a superior game. The Rouge needs to go. The goal posts need to be backed up to the 21st century not kept in the 18th. The spin-the-wheel QB game every offseason. Well, the NFL has that this year, but it's a first.
@@brendanryan3493 fair enough i like both anyways
@@brendanryan3493 lack of a bowl from the CFL turns the stadiums into a wind tunnel. It's terrible
That crazy Russian owner sounds like the old owner of Vityaz Podolsk team. It was a goon team back in the day. The league has changed a lot. That bullshit doesn't fly in Russia so much anymore.
You got to love Biz telling a great story but not getting the protagonist right. There’s nothing more classic than that!
Just love Biz!!
Yoooo wales mentioned 😂😂
Biz!!!
Even if he doesn’t think anyone does i still think about Taylor everyday 😂
That entire Yaroslavl locomotive team was killed in a freak plane crash about 10 years back.
RIP Pavel Demitra
I have a friend who is Russian from Russia and his entire family is super bad ass. The s sounds all very true. Russians are incredibly tough people. Very different culture I don't even know why they are but he is the toughest guy and his family I've ever met. Besides my dad who was a marine from Vietnam
Man I love the CFL. Sucks Biz as a fellow Canadian is bashing our league, they could use all the good publicity they can get
Great episode🤙
06:45 best league single player, lol
Great clip
AKMs and AK-74s, actually. AK-47s are extremely old and haven’t been produced in decades.
Damn that kid in the yellow at the bottom is WAILING on that poor other kid.
was the coach Hannu Jortikka? He was a coach in a KHL and they lose a game, Jortikka was raging and screaming hes gonna kill all the russians.. Like in 15mins bodyguards gave him that ak-47 gun but Jortikka said okay lets go to the shooting range he needs his players lol
in Croatia it's well known owners would give football players duffle bags of cash, I had no idea that sorta shit was foreign to americans lol
Not in pro but college its rampant. Like I played football even at a small college I'd have meals at nice places paid for, "money handshakes", I can even remember a kid I had coached who was recruited by Oregon giving him $25k in Nike gear then his trip to Michigan where he committed got another $25k in jump man gear and this is a 18 year old getting this mind you, had some friends from Reynoldsburg, Ohio who knew a few top Michigan State running backs who got a couple thousand, yeah its not foreign but also not like mob run as you see here. Most of its just boosters like our big one was a massive paint company who did a lot of this when I played.
@@osu5inarow yeah, money motivates people wherever they are. The only difference between Europe and NA is that there are plenty of mob ran clubs in Europe
osu5inarow I’ve heard about this stuff and it made me wonder why there was a push to pay college players. Them getting an official form of payment that can be traced isn’t advantageous to them. They already get it under the table from boosters like you said and receive a huge marketing boost
Danbury Trashers of the UHL about 15 years ago was mob run. The league itself was mostly $300-400 a week salaries but the owner would give player's family members no-show jobs to get around the salary cap.
Lewan killin it at the Nashville Predators game the other night lol
Taylor is from Scottsdale, AZ..... I wonder if he's a fan of the GREAT Auston Matthews?
Having lived in Russia for nearly seven years, I can assure you that none of these stories are particularly surprising or even shocking :-D I definitely have stories, but nothing that anyone who has lived there wouldn't recognize.
Fuckin' Nailers baby!!!!! I was there.
why is there a 6 minute vietnamese ad on this
3 years later, Biz brawls 5 Gypsis.... my guy
Nfl Blitz: The League is one game not two lol
This is gold.
Mark Giordano has stories he wont tell in public from his 1 season in the KHL before he made the Flames full time. See if you can tease some good KHL stories out of him.
Coming in hot with the BDE 🔥🔥🔥
I was there (KHL) These stories are true. The fighting team was Vityaz Chehov. Mirasty, Yablonski, Brennan, Tarnasky. Coach was the idiot Andrei Nazarov-.No hockey, just fighting.
Any relation to Teemu Pulkkinen?
Bernd Bruckler wrote a great book about his experiences in KHL playing for (mainly) Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. His stories about sneaking out of the Baza were hilarious!
@@victorhell1907 No but Teemu is a friend of mine. And I know Brucks well too :)
That's awesome! Every once in a while I run across KHL fans when I wear Metallurg Magnitogorsk or HC Sibir Novosibirsk or Avangard Omsk t-shirts.
@@victorhell1907 I was in Dinamo Riga
Nice! You got to enjoy life in Latvia. 🇱🇻
Just like Arturs Irbe and Rudolf Balcers! 😀
Jerry Jones wishes he could have a chat with the refs while holding his AR
That's funny AF
I was hoping to hear some of Taylors college stories with the Michighan hockey team lmao
A new goon/ snapshot needs too be made about an import player in one on the Russian gas ⛽️ just trying to get payed
😂😂😂😂🤣
Playback speed x.5, your welcome
These dudes are WASTED 😂😂😂
At first glance I thought one of the hashtags said # RussianWithTheBoys
“You call one more penalty ima kill your family” - I’d like to see what Wes McCauley would do with that one.
The khl is no longer runned by mobs. It was like 8-10 years ago
In 8 to 10 years the league has been completely cleaned up? I don’t think so...
@@jeffdekimpe1746 lol....right. it might take an extinction level event.
@@jeffdekimpe1746 yeah no way still run by the mob
Mob run is correct.
Putin’s evil no question but I respect the fact that he’s pretty fit at the age of 50-something in a country where the average life-span is like 54 because of massive vodka intake. I would like to see Putin play with a goalie too.
Putin is actually 68 years old.
There are plenty of videos where he plays in a game 5v5 with goalies. Many of those players are Russian hockey legends. But I have to warn you. That's like in that movie the dictator. He sucks but they let him score and be the MVP Funny af XD
@@janisdikis3386 right lol not even trying on the face off
nobody tells these stories than biz nasty,its even better when these foot ball boys are like WTF is goin on with that
The CFL needs something to happen with it. It is very boring to watch it's alot of air ball for a toughdown very little running game. I would love to see the NFL to say ok we are gonna merge your teams into the NFL.
The CFL needs to change to 4 downs
I find some of the stories about KHL too outlandish to believe. Was it the first division, or some very low tier? As for the AK47, I am sure rich American owners travel with armed body guards. Just concealed.
Whats all over the one guys right leg?
It’s tape and seran wrap covering up a fresh tattoo
@@paulbancroft2812 ah that makes sense, thought it was a bunch of those things athletes wear on sore muscles lol
Anybody remember the Russian Penguins?
Damn let Paul talk lol
Wow hockey players seem nice
WV native right here
Who is the guy in the "Run LEFT " shirt? He is a real man
So If you played 10 years in the CFL you never had a career?
Wow man, that's fucked Bizzy, great info for the average beer guzzling hockey fan.
No 3 years super league
Goodnight Jim kyte
Goodnight Jimmy Mann (The Ox!)
played in our league in uk and got its name wrong haha. how can you not know what eihl stands for haha
Ring in chris stapleton
Blitz league type gameplay. Gotta love russia eh.
CFL counts as pro tf?
CFL gets no respect
I laughed so hard thank you
CFL would benefit from an XFL merger.
When someone is telling a story don't got him of for god sakes..
Don’t talk shit about the CFL, rule #347
Just admit can't make it to nhl . Really pro yeard khl euro hockey man our best girl hockey player played cause she is awesome.
Just jealous is all lol
Going to have to say something about putin that he failed to be honest with himself. US president go golfing ( not a sport ) Putin for his age trys to show he is still active and yes putting on a show. Yet when you seen a US president try to play actually sport??? The only fucking time you see a president do something is when he goes to baseball throws a terrible pitch. And yet even one cheers him who ever it is..so what the difference?
I heard biz got caught giving a hand job to the coaches son
Pros being paid to do a service? What is that service, exactly? lol
Putin Is a weapon cmon biz
NHL - KHL - SEL - SM-Liiga - AHL
Most fabricated story I’ve ever heard
The mysterious desert alternatively divide because tom-tom postoperatively prevent minus a bent look. lonely, staking rubber
Lmao what a liar. Nice imagination Biz.
These guys are ridiculous….. hockey pay is shit … there acting like it’s the highest pid
These two guys can5 shut up enough to hear the damn story. 👎
Americans are so self involved they can’t believe things happen outside their little world.
Where’s ur damn mask!?!? Omg
This is very untrue. It might be 20 years ago, but I still doubt. Story about AK-47 is a joke.
Buzz; Putin is not Evil; he’s a Legend that takes no BS. A real leader
@WillinghamWinter well you don’t see all these whiny fringe cultures trying to bull any BS in Russia. Fug dat! They won’t have people who’ve ruined other nations, ruin Russia. They’re not stupid!
Ok, the story about Putin is complete horseshit as I know first hand, so I have to doubt the rest of this guy's stories.
Bizz is a joke
I would take putin over biden anytime. Skating president, r u kidding me.