Ludwig, Radigan Celebrate Canadian Defeat in Front of Razor Reaugh

by Brad Gardner on Jan 5, 2011 11:45 PM CST in Dallas Stars General Info

Smile on the outside, tears on the inside for his beloved Canada.

With the battle won tonight and everyone in Stars-land feeling good, Craig Ludwig and John Radigan took a little matter of national pride and gamesmanship into their own hands late Wednesday when speaking with Darryl "Razor and uber Canadian" Reaugh.

Razor had somberly and sincerely (#sarcasm) congratulated the Americans during the pre-game show on their bronze medal and victory over Sweden in the afternoon along side Steve Ott, who bet Adam Burish Canada would win gold.

The bet seemed a sure thing at 3-0 Canada in the 3rd, but unless you were living under a hockey rock, you know that Russia scored five unanswered goals to stun Canada. And presumably Razor.

The resourceful Radigan and Ludwig donned what Russian paraphernalia they could find to taunt Mr. Reaugh, who pleaded innocence and remarked that silver still seemed better to him than bronze.

Fair enough, and yet because of how serious Canada takes this and how much the U.S. seems to just not care, it felt like the studio crew had the last laugh.

(The moral: It's fun what you can do when the Stars are winning like this, and the Stars on-air talent is willing to go this extra mile for the sake of the show. Awesome.)

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grumble grumble grumble

What won’t make the air is when Razor rolls a steak in powdered glass and gives it to their dogs.

ps. that was funny of those two.

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by PPP on Jan 5, 2011 11:47 PM CST reply actions

It's all just fun

I think we should celebrate them when they step outside the realm of normal, straight sports journalism and have a little fun.

Defending Big D

by Brad Gardner on Jan 5, 2011 11:49 PM CST reply actions

Agreed

Made me like John Radigan a little more.

by jabudi on Jan 6, 2011 9:16 AM CST up reply actions

Every time he's on the radio locally

As a fill in on the Ticket he’s great. I really like him a lot.

And he is a TALL dude. The first time I stood next to him in the elevator I was looking up like “huh. wow”

Defending Big D

by Brad Gardner on Jan 6, 2011 10:04 AM CST up reply actions

That settles it

If Luddie AND Brad vouch for him, he can’t be all bad. :P

by jabudi on Jan 6, 2011 11:47 AM CST up reply actions

Wish I could have seen that. They cut the vidoe feed I was watching before it happened

The Stars will have a 3 game win streak within their first 6 games. Mark my words!

by Tsudbury on Jan 6, 2011 6:33 AM CST reply actions

That was great.

And the text from Hitch to the Ask Luddy bit on that was hilarious too. I forget the whole thing, but remember it ended with "putting an Easton up your A$#!

They swore it was legit. Anybody got the whole text?

by 1paniolo on Jan 6, 2011 11:59 AM CST reply actions

“What’s that crap on your jacket?
You might end up with an Easton up your *#@!!”
Ken Hitchcock
Luddy said it’s not a joke it’s real, he used to get a lot of crap from Hitch when he played and it was deserved it was about his play but never about anything he ever wore or said. He told Hitchcock “And Hitch if you’re still watching, thank your buddy Razor for what we did tonight cause he was the one that kinda started the jabbing back and forth, but I’m glad that you’re tuning in to watch your old team play”

Gotta have hockey!
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by terig on Jan 6, 2011 9:08 PM CST up reply actions

Burish..

got a shaving cream pie to the face today at practice! I think Ott did it but it happened so fast I couldn’t tell lol. I’m assuming it may have been part of their “bet”.

by EyesOfDallas on Jan 6, 2011 4:30 PM CST reply actions