4th Line Voice Podcast · The Hockey Podcast Network

Episode 494 "Ride The Lightning"

·1 hr 1 min·4 clips

Deeson broke his stick over Roland LaMere's skull and then attacked a referee after a boarding call.

Darren kicks things off sick, late, and mildly irritated with himself. He says he skipped work, jokes about the veteran habit of working overtime on the weekend and then calling in sick on the actual day, and tries to keep a coughing fit from taking over. He also admits he dropped the ball on social media for the previous episode. The whole opening has a loose, rambling feel. He frames the episode as enforcer-based podcasting and stays parked in that old hockey lane. The main argument circles around the Bertuzzi incident and the fight with Matt Cook. Darren has no interest in the neat version of the story. He keeps saying there is no code, even when commenters try to turn the moment into something tidy and settled. The pushback is personal, not academic. He asks listeners to put themselves in Bertuzzi’s shoes when Marcus Naslund is the friend lying there concussed. That angle makes the fight feel less like a clip and more like a wound. He mocks the idea that one bout should be enough just because someone finally dropped the gloves. The show keeps returning to the same point from different directions. Darren talks about how the game was already a blowout by the time the major incident happened. He notes that an earlier fight in the same game did not change much either. He treats the idea of closure as something outsiders often invent after the fact. The rant stays blunt and funny in a rough, defensive way. He folds in the usual housekeeping, including the YouTube channel, old fight clips, and a reminder to join the chat. Even the apologies and self-promotion stay in character, because the whole thing feels like a guy thinking out loud while the tape keeps rolling. It ends with the same attitude it started with: if fighting is not your thing, you probably would have gone for coffee anyway.

As heard by us

A blunt, personal defense of hockey rage that treats one fight as far from closure.

Episode 494 is Darren at his most personal and most combative, arguing that one fight does not settle a hockey grievance. He keeps circling back to the part people tend to skip: when the injured player is a friend, a token bout does not feel like justice.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

You want hockey fight talk that treats grudges like real injuries, not internet folklore.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from 4th Line Voice Podcast