Hey, guys, did you hear about Alexander Ovechkin's diet?

Yes, it's mine.

Alexander Ovechkin, Russian Machine Never Breaks, had this really great post. Ovechkin's, quote, borderline inspiring diet includes gas station, sub, and Flaming Hot Cheetos. Were they Flaming Hot? Yeah, he was seen because they were boarding the plane to Toronto, and the Capp social media people were taking pictures of them.

He's going to score six goals.

And he Yeah, he was having some subway and some Cheetos.

The Leifs have approximately zero players. He's eating Flaming Hot Cheetos. We're going to die.

It's already documented by Russian Machine that he loves Italian subs. The spicy Italian sub includes spicy pepperoni, salami, and cheese. You can also toss on peppers, oil, vinegar, and quoting Subway, anything else your taste puts desire. The Footlog includes double cheese and extra mayo. As Ovechkin walked away, the assumption It is that he would be assuming somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 calories a sub and astonishing 3,000 milligrams of sodium. But you got to remember, these are hockey players, and they burn calories. It doesn't matter. They can eat anything they want. Yes. God, dream. Yeah. He also likes to drink. He's been caught drinking soda on the bench, and he likes to eat chicken parm before home games.

That's probably the most normal hockey player thing you just said, that he likes to have chicken parm.

Yeah. I think people think that because Nathan McKinnon is that way, is one way, that everybody's that way. No. No, Nathan McKinnon is different. That's why it's a story.

Chickpea pasta is different. It's every hockey player for several generations was chicken parm. Like the first Italian- Pasta. Broke into... Phil Esposido broke into the NHL, and that's how everyone ate for about 40 years. Yeah. And then it changed.

And maybe a coffee and a couple of cigarettes. You got to watch it down with a couple of cigs, right? Absolutely.

I'm going to go out there and score 76 goals or whatever Mario Lemu got. There he is. Dude, he's got a full head of grayish white hair, giant ass sub, and Flaming Hot Cheetos.

Louis Vuitton backpack.

Louis Vuitton backpack. Because why not? Best goal scorer in NHL history.

Yeah, why not? I respect it.

Mama, there goes that, man.

I want to remind you that Jack Eichel is also one of these guys who gets a little crazy with what he eats. I know we brought this up before, but I still love this I wake up, I go to the rink, I have egg YTS, oatmeal strawberries, then I have apple juice, then I have gator light, and then I have gatorade, and then I tape my sticks, and I get on the ice, and I go for the pregame steets, and then I get off, and then I get a flush massage of my legs, and then I get in the shower, and then I get in the cold tub for four minutes, then I get out and go home. And Sam Reinhardt, we live together, and now he lives four houses from me, picks up our pregame meal at a restaurant that we like. I go pick it up at his house, I grab it, I eat it at 12:30, 12:00 to 1-ish. We're only halfway through his day.

He did all of that to miss the playoff six consecutive of yours with the saber sign.

Excuse me. That's Stanley Cup winner, Jack Eichel.

Well, yeah, but he went to Vegas, and then he started having the buff face. Right. I made that up. I don't know if that's actually true.

I feel like that's... Isn't that the right way to do it? You're a professional athlete. You should take care of your body and try and prolong this thing as long as you can.

Yeah, well, that's a great point, Jesse. Here, counterpoint, Maddie, can you bring up Jesse's laptop? That's my counterpoint right there. Alexander O'V Ovechkin, Hot Cheetos, Subway, giving nary a shit.

I feel like this is the exception.

No, that's the rule.

I feel like the McKinnon-Eichel mentality is going to prolong What have those guys ever done besides accomplish the same things as Alexander Ovechkin? I feel like that's more common amongst newer athletes, as opposed to, I'm going to eat Subway and Cheetos and be the greatest goal scorer of all time.

I don't think Sydney Crosby is eating Subway way in Cheetos.

No, I agree with you. Yeah. I didn't know that would be a hot take to you, Steve. You're telling me- That eating healthy is probably the right way to go.

Really? You didn't think that I thought that?

Really? You want to do a mini fat guy corner? Oh, miniMini Fat guy corner?Mini Fat guy corner? What's he got?

Wait, is that an oxymoron? Mini fat guy?

Oh, okay. Well, we just got to do a... Well, no, we have fatter fat guy corner.

Okay, fair enough.

What you got? Give me some of that.

You're telling me Sydney Crosby... See, Jessie won't appreciate this, Adam. You're telling me Sydney Crosby has never had a fish and chips down at the Lower Deck.

Or fried pepperoni. With a little honey mustard.

Lower Deck is, I think it's the greatest place in the world.

It's the greatest bar that you've never yet been to, but one day we will go. We'll go do a live show in Halifax, and we'll do it at the Lower Deck. Halifax.

It's the best bar in the place with the most bars per capita in North America. Yeah.

And then we're going to the Dome after.

No, we're going. I don't know.

We're going Dirty Dome. Yeah. We'll end up with syphilis, but we're going. I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding. It's a joke. It's a joke. I went to the dome plenty of times and never got syphilis.

After getting busted for tax evasion, that's an Al Capone joke. Yeah. No, the fish and chips It's like you go to any... Oh, yeah, I'm going to go see a band at a bar. You don't expect the food to be five-star.

No, it's just good. If you can do good, greasy food, it's great.

The fish and chips at the lower deck. I want it in my It's life.

Didn't Michael Phelps eat a lot of Subway and stuff, too?

Well, he was sponsored by Subway, but I don't know if he ever ate it.

He had to eat 12,000 calories a day. I remember that.

I think Michael Phelps could find a way to eat Subway every day and be perfectly fine because of how many calories he burned. I remember that video or that CNN interview or whatever it was where he talked about what he ate in a day, and it's like what a family eats in a week. Yes. He eats that every single day.

He could If a normal person ate like that, and again, athletes are not normal. You'd be sick. You'd be vomiting.

I want a floorbell tournament.

You're right. But you can't eat like Michael Phelps can eat. No, I can't. Or could eat anyway. I can't. My question is always, how do you stop eating that? Does your body just naturally need less once you're trained? If you're Michael Phelps now, he's probably working out. He's probably doing a bunch of training and motivational speaking, all that stuff.

Smoking weed without getting caught.

Yeah, hey, kids, don't smoke weed. When there was a giant controversy, he was caught with the bong in his hand.

Greatest Olympian of all time. But what if he didn't ingest cannabis?

It was like when Bill Clinton was like, Yes, I took a token off of joy college, but I never inhaled.

I never inhaled.

And then Obama was like, I inhaled. I thought that was the point.

That Robin Williams bit about the Canadian snowboarder who won gold.

Birbigliadi.

Birbigliadi, who had frigging in the system. Yeah. It's like it's a performance-enhancing drug.

To answer your question, Adam, I think you see a lot of athletes, ex-ath, pro-athletes, gain that weight in their retirement because they keep up that eating regime and not the athletic regime. That happens a lot, I think you find with pro athletes in their later stage of their lives. But you also find guys it's easy to... Bodies are very adaptable. If you just stop eating like that, your body will adapt eventually. I don't think they have that too much trouble. It just depends on which way you go. What do you I think the deepest parts of Michael Phelps's vermilion brain think?

He's just being chased by wolves every day. And that's what we need. We need this because he burns. I don't know what he's doing, but the amount of energy we're using every day, I think something is trying to kill him from dawn till dust.

That's how you become the greatest Olympian ever. Ever.

Then you stop one day and, Oh, I guess they all fell off.

Your body must be broken for a few years just what it's supposed to do in these moments. Oh.