OverDrive - OverDrive - April 21, 2025 - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

Join Bryan Hayes, Jeff O'Neill and Jamie McLennan for Hour 1 on OverDrive! The guys discuss the Maple Leafs' victory to open the first round against the Senators, the team taking advantage of power plays and strong performance in the game. They also dive into the biggest headlines around the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Oilers and Canadiens beginning their series and the Canadian team's perspective in the NHL.

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Join today and be part of something amazing. This Hour of Overdrive is powered by FanDuel. FanDuel, bringing you everything from the opening line to the final score. All right, here we go, Overdrive, off and running. TSN 1050 on the TSN app, your smart speaker and up on TSN for Brian Hasey Oh, Doug Jeff O'Neill Jamie Noodle's McLennan Wow, I didn't know if someone could possibly have a bounce in their voice

I have a bounce in my voice. I have a bounce in my voice the battle of Ontario's back. It's a beautiful thing and I have a bounce in my voice the battle of Ontario's back. It's a beautiful thing and He was in the bill New York Rangers streak ended the Cubs streak ended And I think you kind of kept it kind of low Your streak of being in the building with an L ended You were there were you there working or were you just there working? So I have quite the backstory on my whole scene last night. All right. So my daughter had a hockey tournament all weekend. We are commuting. I must have driven from here to Winnipeg and back over the course of four days. Right?

It's no joke, man. It's nonstop. And then you get into the, are we going to make the semis? We made the semis. Okay. And if you win the semis, you're going to get into the finals, but the finals is in the afternoon i was doing sports and i was going to do jay last night and naturally people are preparing in the lake are you going to be building and i said i gotta wait to see if the way and walls at one time he was i do you start of the game that would be walls your guy you're like you guys

better loses game well if, that's the thing. If they went to the final, I would have been at home because I'd have to commute the whole family home. By the time I would have walked in the door at 6.45, I'm like, I'm not getting down to the game. So, they end up losing in the semi-finals. Great battle, awesome. And then I check in, I'm like, I'm going down to the Leaf game.

All right, so I send messages, I'll be down there. I was going to be in the presser, right? Of course. I'm going to be up in the press box and after the game doing hits and all that. My brother-in-law sends me a text five o'clock. Hey, our buddy who he was going to the game with pulls the shoot last minute. He's got tickets, seats. He goes, I know you're going to be down there. Do you want to sit in the seats? I need someone to go with me. Oh, dude. I pounce on it.

Was that a petting zoo? Here's the thing. We've been doing the show for a long time. Are you full suit mode? We've been doing the show for so long, and calling out suits and the lower bowl, and I had to wear a suit to the game. Yeah, you're working.

I'm working after the game. And I sent that message to him. I said, just're working. I'm working after the game and I sent that message to him. I said, just so you know, I know you, I know your routine. You're going to be into beers, wearing Matthews jerseys and you're going to be waving the, I'm not doing that. I'm going to have a suit on drinking water. I have to work out to the game, but I'd like to be in the seats because I'd like to pick up on the atmosphere and it's a completely different vibe when you're up in the press box. You guys know this.

You're completely disconnected from everything. You're watching the game, but you're disconnected from everything. The nonsense. Yeah. And I'm like, you know what? I want to, I want to be there. I want to see battle of Ontario in the seats. And I'm the only one in a suit and credit to those fans last night.

It was an unbelievable atmosphere down there. The crowd was crazy. It was a great night and I'm in a suit, but did you do that watching the game? There's a small detail I want to know if you pulled it out Did you pull out the Bobby Mac notepad with the pen and put it on your knee? Yeah, that's a hero move I did not but I am gonna run something past you guys Tell me what you think in retrospect because I think I have a new Lifestyle, I think I'm I'm into a different I know what he did I know I

did take it go ahead you guess send voice notes you know you made notes on your on your phone well I got I most certainly did that but you know because I needed my tie I wasn't gonna wear my tie I needed my IFP I needed a phone charger fanny pack I was just gonna say were you wearing of some sort of like and money all uh...

and he had a marissa was suit i had a fanny pack and a suit on walking around that place and i would have had a lot for such a or a little bit of a or some kind of Willy. No, it was a Nike one that he was given some, like 20 years ago. Dude, if you walk in with a gorgeous suit and an old slow-pitch Molson Canadian fanny pack, you're a trasher. I was. And I got to credit my wife because usually, again, when you're in the presser, you bring

a bag. I bring everything. I bring a laptop to the game. And I'm like, okay, I need my stuff. I have to be prepared. And I'm like, I'm going fanny pack. You guys know I go briefcase. This briefcase is the only thing to look professional. You cannot wear a fanny pack, man.

I am disgusted right now. I love it. I love it. But I guarantee you, you found a way to have it like on the side where your jacket would cover or something. You look like you were carrying something else. All day noodles. It's like the hand warmers where they put it behind them when they're about to snap the ball that was me it was tucked behind the suit and I had because I had to have it I had to be prepared but yeah yeah it was great and it was yeah I did you know SC and J after and there was a buzz in the place I will say this because there's always a referendum on the fans and I remember game one last year there was a big conversation about

where it wasn't loud enough or people engaged what happened and they lost game one to Boston last year which certainly didn't help but I thought the the buzz in the building that confidence and I don't know if it was a combination I'm sure it was of it being a long weekend it being a Sunday I was the only guy in a suit no one else had any reason to be you weren't coming from Bay Street into the building right for whatever reason but I also think the Battle of Ontario I thought the Leafs did a great job last night like they brought talks back out you know Darcy came out Dougie was there Rick five was there like

a lot of big heavy hitters were there and in the building they did a really good job with game ops and it was a fun game the fun night but not if you're a sense that necessarily but they played great it was a great great that you could not have scripted it better for a game one for the leaves and but the the crowd itself ike i was in shock a you're in the building i couldn't tell what it was but just the fact that and i don't know if they watch the commercial with grandpa tucks screwing the screws off the seat and he looks in the camera

and he goes we don't need I don't know if grandpa tucks had the most influence on everybody going crazy but just to see them standing up I was like what it took a hundred years for you guys to get it it was just great and we talked about it on on SC last night I just love the Maple Leafs approach where in years past there was almost this Anxiety and you could sense it amongst the players and that would almost filter through to the fans Where last night from the drop of the pocket was like let's just let this thing rip Like let's hit and let's be excited and let's be on our toes and let's go downhill And let's play with some excitement and some jam as

Opposed to looking like oh god. What if something bad goes happen? What happens if we lose this game? What happens if we lose this series? I just thought there was some Some excitement to it. There was some pace some physicality There was a mandate in the first period if the Ottawa Senator player touches the puck they're gonna to be finished. And it was just a great, and you play like that to start and the game can ultimately soften up and some opportunities can open up for you. And they did.

And they made the other team pay the price. I thought it was a great start. But man oh man, there's like, people have gone crazy after one game. Like we do a segment called it's only one game but people around the world like their team loses like everyone in New Jersey although they might be a bunch of phonies in Jersey they're going nuts they're like we suck and how did we even make the it's one game nobody take a lesson from Pete DeBoer you see Pete DeBoer sitting at

his presser he was like this is a uh... we were that good that i was a lot of playoff games he's not freaking out but you can be happy with like i think in the moment old i think you can be elated with the way you played but you can be today it's workman like back to the table whatever happened yesterday that's

yesterday we're looking forward i think you can have the best of both worlds if you're in the bubble of as players fans you know what that's a different story yeah there's no going back there's no going back because this is the Battle of Ontario there are you know on Ottawa side they're they're upset about certain things in Toronto side they're excited about certain things so be it that's the fans the players that's a different story. You know, if you had a checklist of stuff that you wanted to hit if you were the Leafs yesterday, you hit it all.

Like, you hit everything. If you're Ottawa, there's a checklist of things that they missed on and they've got to either adjust or that's it. Like, you're not going to be able to get back in the series. But it is one game but that's why we talk about all the time in the NFL Monday Monday's after that first weekend or whatever like it's I don't think it's overreaction but it can be excitement I don't know how you feel about yeah I know for sure and I agree I don't I don't like it is overreaction in terms of it being a long series and you know Lee if anyone should know that it's Lee fans because they've been in the shoes of sends fans Today so many times in the past, right? Like prior to last night in the Matthews Marner Nylander era the previous eight years

They were two and six in game one and how many times did they push it to seven? You know it so it's it is one game, but you should be excited. You're allowed to be excited I think the leaf fans should should be proud of their team I think Leaf should be proud of the way they played last night but you're gonna have to settle in and if you're Ottawa the objective has not changed whether it was game one or game two you're hoping for a split and They're gonna have to make some adjustments and we'll talk a lot about it today and tomorrow leading into the game But yeah, I think you know for the Leafs

What was different was they've struggled so much in game ones, like I said, two and six prior to last night, and they've struggled at home. You know, and their power play, Jonas tweeted it out last night, they had one power play goal in seven games last year against Boston. They had three last night. So like you said, Noodles, I think any box you'd ever want to check for the Leafs was checked last night, but that's one game. You gotta do it. You have to have some maturity. But that's what you take it. They've talked to you years past, guys, about learning lessons and scar tissue.

Be veteran enough and savvy enough to understand that you're gonna get a response tomorrow and forget about the 6-2 because you have to get it in your mind that tomorrow night's winner is gonna be a 2-1. Ultimately, it might not be you might blow them out again All mark might not find his game and it might be just a a gong show tomorrow night But you have to prep yourself for Ottawa's best because they got pride They're a quality team and they work hard and they got some piss and vinegar to their game and they're gonna show up and play I think they realized they were all geeked up yesterday and they tried to out physically like out physical the Leafs or out hit them and they got out of control and they got stupid and they paid the price for it

You're gonna get a better game and it's probably gonna be two one or three two So you talk for years you said you've learned and you're experienced and you got to move forward and learn like tomorrow's It'll say a lot. Yeah forward and learn like tomorrow's a lot. Yeah. It'll say a couple years ago they spanked Tampa five or six one. They lost the next one five. Not right. Game two will say more about the leaves and the lessons learned than what last night was

ever going to tell us. Like last night was, you know, the least were fiery. They get on the board pretty quick. Ottawa, you know, it sputters out of control. The roughing is the roughing and they're all're all you know discombobulated because of it all mark can't stop anything you know in terms of like grade-a chances that the least generated last night and it ends up being kind of a runaway you know that's what it was last night but what you do game two for both teams I think is really going to be the test if Ottawa shows up

and do it does exactly what you just said, O, is they battle, they push, they score first, Allmark makes big stops and they get a win, we got ourselves a series and it may be a coin flip. We'll see what happens the rest of the way. If the Leafs play the way they did last night or improve on that and win and do so, I think decisively, I think that'll actually be more telling about... More of a statement, yeah. Yeah, exactly. More of a statement than whatever last night was. So I think decisively I think that'll actually be more telling about Yeah, exactly more of a statement than whatever last night was last night was that's an appetizer you get started Someone's gonna win game one. It was the home team the more veteran team the least were peeking coming in as well

That was significant like they played their best hockey the last 15 games and props to Craig So Ruby one little nugget like props for him to being confident and things may change There was already some subtle changes in what the lineup, he just had a gut feeling about the lineup that finished the season, because he could have tinkered and said, Patcheretti, you've been out for a long time, but we value your veteran blah blah blah, you're going in. He didn't do that. He had a gut feeling about that roster, that lineup that he had finished the season and

he played it you're right oh but he might but the one thing i would love to to point out that that would like your guys is thought process with it there's a game plan in place for game one it might adjust for game two absolutely so so this is what i mean by it and and i

and tell me if i'm wrong in this but i i thought the lease so you talk about checking boxes you knew that auto was going to try and be extremely aggressive with them and i think that that ron may believe that a great job of at agitating drawing penalties doing things

where it was auto was sitting in the box they take four opposite four penalties in the offensive zone and some of them are stupid put penalties and regardless again i'm not gonna wraps around through wraps both rough both teams i didn't like this one the states the one i thought was a recall after that amateur our car that's not a bad call you're you're right there was a after the

first period they put the whistles away and then that's the one you know i understand i'd i'd thought that the weirdest one was batterson on ekman larcen because ekman larcen it goes down but he was holding his head and second you know push from behind in the end you know like in the end it doesn't matter you're taking those penalties and and that's where

i want to get back to my point I thought the Leafs in you know antagonize not antagonize that's a word they made the the the Sens take penalties initiated initiate sorry they initiated and there was retaliation that's thinking the game going hey we're you know we're gonna deal with Brady we're gonna deal with all this stuff all they did was play hard whistle to whistle and the sense fell into a little bit of a trap and i thought that was brilliant from a game plan

for the to the maple leaves where at the veteran team going hey we know what this team's going to be like they're going to try and run us out of the building physically let's do it this way and what they did is the drew penalties and then they made him pay on the power play exact that's it and you go made them pay on the power play. Exactly. And you go three for six on the power play. You're winning in the playoffs. That's a dagger right there. The game, because if you go five on five that's a three-two

game right? Like it and that looks different. The power play was the dagger it was the game within the game. So what I mean by us and I'm getting long-winded the adjustments now Ottawa's gonna have to adjust to how they play but now Toronto might adjust to how they're going to attack tomorrow physically right so that's a Craig group Ruby thought process that's game planning so Travis green and his group have to adjust to that a lot of performance adjustments right exactly coach that they're there they're fuse in their patients with performance I think Max Thome got a period and a half last night and coach didn't play in the third.

Yeah. So the coach made an adjustment and it doesn't take long for a coach. And I'm sure Travis green has got the same thing, looking at some of the guys that he put out there last night. You get a hate on pretty quick. You're like, like this didn't just sneak up on you and you put out a performance like that you gotta make an adjustment quick because you don't have time to wait around for the guy there's zero time to wait around for anybody to find your game haze you talked about it at august that you don't go there to find your game you gotta bring it there

right guys are the guys are aboard the coach was well from the pretty quick short-term anyway and just to give it a look absolutely now one outlier on that is the goalie yeah Travis green can't do anything for Linus Almark green is not sitting there in the with a whiteboard saying hey I said it last night he's got to get one of those maybe it's the Ekman Larson one but the other ones you're talking about a Mitch Marner breakaway you're talking about William Nylander 10 feet away with a howitzer. I mean, John Tavares left alone all in front. Same thing with Matthew.

I agree. He's got to get one of them. He's got to get one or two because the guy at the other end did. That's my point. That's it. I mean, in my opinion, there were two moments in the game, like being there with the crowd and trying to get a read on what the pendulum swings, the energies in the game, like being there with the crowd and trying to get a read on the pendulum swings, the energies in the building.

There were two possible tip the scales moments that went the leaf's way. The first one was the breakaway save on Kichuk to start the second period. That would have made it 2-2. That's 2-2. The next thing you flinch and it's 4-1. So Stolarz made three stops in the second period that were phenomenal. The Kachuk, the Pinto one-timer and the Zetterlund off his stick. Those three were huge.

Olmark didn't make one of those stops. But I thought the Kachuk breakaway was so significant that Stolar stopped that. And then I think after Gregg scored, Riley scores 45 seconds later. Greg scores, it's four, two, was 16 minutes to go. There's a little bit of a dampening in the building. What's gonna happen here? Okay, four, two, 16 minutes. A lot of things can go here.

Another, you know, bad break and it's four, three. And Riley scores literally 45 seconds later and it's over. The lights are out, it's done. And it's big haze because how many times in years past, like we're talking about a lot of kind of heartbreak losses like that could chock breakaway it was in every time that's everything though that and that's it I know the great goal it was in they would find a way that one that hit the knob of the stick would go off and in it would just be like Samson off in Boston last year

is a great example where it's like yeah we can talk about a guy needs to step up but why do we have garbage goals going in? Exactly. And conversely, the Leafs weren't scoring on their opportunities. I think you can look at that game to break it down. Marner scores on his breakaway, Kachuk doesn't score on his. It could be a completely different game because if you look at it, the penalties, once it gets to 5-2, 6-2, everything else is irrelevant. game because if you look at it you know the penalties once it gets to five to six to everything else irrelevant

like people like look at all the penalties they called forty five penalties at the end of the game it doesn't matter it doesn't really count what counts was you know the the greg cross check the five on three uh... you know that they could chuck one i think the start the third i believe it was like there were a couple of different

you know penalties that court clearly benefit the lease and they they made them pounce but i i think in terms of the way the game really played out was each team had five or six create a chances and stole our stop it's the majority of his in all mark didn't stop any of his literally none that i can recall and yes they were great

opportunities but that's what the Leafs are looking for like push every all the noise out you give me five or six chances on your side five or six on ours we will take as a maple leaf if you're the Leafs grade a with Nylander Marner Matthews Tavares Knives you pick your five on Ottawa, we'll take that all day. We'll take it all day. Because they're more skilled. They just have more elite, like lethal, especially playoff talent in terms of the way it played out last night.

And I think to put a bow on it, Hayes, I think they found that for one game, if it's one game, they found some kind of formula about feeling good and feeling confident. And that was kind of like the large sample size of feeling good. I mean, everything clicked their way. The goaltender, the big boys, the power play. But tomorrow night, it might be some type of smaller version of that where the goaltender still got to be good, but it might be a third or fourth liner that chips in. And then somebody in overtime where it's a two one hockey game

But as far as good players feeling good about themselves your goaltender getting into it and feeling good Special teams like there's something there to build off of but it might you have to be veteran enough to realize that it won't be Like that tomorrow night, right? Yeah, that's right. I thought Scotty Lawton on that fourth line with those guys I thought they were great last night and don't underestimate he got an assistant Buffalo and he scored that that goal that everyone was probably like ah it's an overtime Detroit the meaningless goal of the year yeah I didn't have anything because it made him feel good it probably made Scotty Lawton feel like you know what I contributed something and just a little spark like

that because he got a great assist where he dumped it out to Lorenz in the slot in Buffalo. And just to have those two small contributions can just make a guy. Because no matter what, if you start playing better and if you, I always talk about it with leadership. Like if you're playing like garbage, it's tough to be vocal and be that leader type of guy because everyone's like, you're not doing doing squat right now how could we even believe anything you're saying

for him to contribute offensively in those last two games he probably just felt good about themselves and you're gonna need contributions like that from guys he made a great play on that OEL goal to kickstart the game absolutely i thought that line was really good and like the bottom six are largely interchangeable. Yeah. You know. Chiefs started them at like, they first shift after a goal is very important and sometimes it was them going out there after a goal.

And that's why you got Lawton. It wasn't for the game against Detroit. This is why you got him. This is why you paid the price for a veteran guy that's got some playoff experience that you feel can step up come playoff time. And again, it's one game, but I really liked this game last night. And I liked, you know, again, we keep recycling the fact that every box was checked but I think it's significant to continue to reiterate that considering the history of the club and

I think you look at a lot of the new guys because you can't bury the lead the core four was great last night like they all they all put up numbers they all had multiple points Riley gets on the board there's's your core five, five longest standing leaves, highest paid players. They've been here for all the scar tissue. They all contributed six different goal scores. But I think when you consider what, you know, was changed last year, they bring in Craig Barube who I think again, kept the eye on the prize coming down the stretch, go chase the division.

Let's play someone different, play Ottawa, which is very is very refreshing you don't have demons if that's Boston last night who knows what that room is thinking if it's Tampa or Florida it's probably a very different vibe where if it's Ottawa and it could have been Detroit it could have been the Rangers as long as it's somewhat different I think that's significant for this crop of players but I thought you know Borube last night, Green starts the Stoots the line. He's like, Matthews, get out there. I'm not trying to get guys away from different people. We're starting our best players and our best line. It's our

house and we're playing. And even in the third period, when they were up 5-2, I thought, you got to put a defenseman out there for the power play. No. And they didn't. I thought that, but know what but I like that noodles but hey so we were talking about a two I it doesn't matter five or six to you're right it was five to power play you're trying to get the six you're trying to get to seventh you're trying to like going that's what you do in the playoffs regular seasons different yeah hey let's find an extra shift for a guy who's you

know maybe doesn't get a power play look or whatever the playoffs. Regular season's different. You know, hey, let's find an extra shift for a guy who's, you know, maybe doesn't get a power play look or whatever. The playoffs are all about, like, you hammer down on that particular night whatever weakness you're finding. So that power play, like, you get it out there, well, Nice ends up getting the goal, but it's, it's, I don't think you switch anything. And that's, you know know heading into game two yes you're gonna have a gut on certain things you might find like we might wake up tomorrow and patch alreadys playing and he's decided to put somebody else in but that's more of how he thinks where the series is going to head hey I need an extra heavier body instead of this like that is instinct as a coach the game

within the game but last night Hayes I didn't think he was going to change it he didn't no that's the right man and i credit him for that like again if you have faith in that five-man five forward power play when it's tied in the first or in the third you better keep going right but what i'm saying is you know brew big him and he's had a positive impact on kind of settling things down i like this postgame last night very composed uh... stole ours was in addition last year. He was obviously great last night.

Ekman Larsson was very good last night. I thought he and Benoit played really, really well. I thought Tana played really well. So, core four is at the forefront of this and they always will be because of who they are and what they've done. But you look at what was added during the off season. Then you can throw in Lot and you can throw in Carlo.

And leading up to the playoffs, it's always the same thing. Every year we all get caught into this trap. Feels different, just looks different. Well, the main guys are still the main guys. And they're gonna have to do the heavy lifting. And they're gonna have to break a game or a series open multiple times to go on a cup run. But really, if you're looking for something tangible,

Berube, Stolarz, Ekman Larssonman Larsson Tana like those are big pieces and Carlo I would throw in there. That's the five like those are five Serious players who are gonna and a coach who are gonna have a big impact on how this could feel or look different And I think that was also significant last night It wasn't just Matthews and Marner and Nylander dragging them somewhere It was new additions with championship pedigree that I thought factored in significantly last highly competitive people Highly competitive people. Yeah, look at the game a different way and we talk about stars and Mitch Marner's contract We're gonna be talking about his performance what he brings to the table

Game one one of the best players on the ice, great start for him. Big start. Everybody's always saying to me, oh, you're so, what do you not like Marner? I love Mitch Marner. I only deal with what's in front of me and what goes on on the ice. He was great last night. Unbelievable start to the playoffs. Keep it going, Mitchie.

And didn't step out of his comfort zone. Wasn't throwing massive hits or hacking guys or getting in scrums. No, difference maker. That's it. Exactly. See, that breakaway goal was a massive point in the game and he was the guy that did it. For years we've been saying, are one of these guys going to step up with something?

And they just, for whatever reason, it never happened. And let's not, I talked about the people freaking out on the negative. Let's not get stupid here on the positive either it's one game yeah you real here but as i said there's a formula for feeling good it might be a smaller version like just it it's not gonna be six to tomorrow so keep going it's it they'll be adjustments there always is I mean we know it in Jersey there's gonna be an adjustment with st. louis

with Dallas you know that is a team, my God, Minnesota. Jersey had a terrible start, like a terrible game one. What happened to Jersey? Like, it's like they, there were bombs coming down the stretch and now they're just going to get smoked. Well, Dallas is the bigger issue, man. They've lost eight in a row and they get smoked the other night.

Yeah. I mean, it, that the score. Five one, I know it that the score five one I know was a little bit like there was an empty netter and then a leon and then a late one too like moldy one But it was still Colorado didn't look like they were out of the driver's seat. I never Carolina one was the most no I I wouldn't count Colorado win the first two games against Dallas and Dallas won the series Colorado win the first two games against Dallas and Dallas won the series That's not playing game two, you know Robertson's out for the series. I hear you

Yeah, like it's two massive pieces for Dallas and they would have taken it's that gonna it's still gonna take their best I still you know, it came back to it haze you talked about at the start of the show here Like the goalies have to out duel each other like I thought Mackenzie Blackwood was unbelievable. He made two massive, like two for sure goals, one on Marchman, the other one on Johnston. Those were grade A stolen saves that might, that game might look different. We just talked about Stolar stopping Brady at two on, at two one in the score. That might look different. The game might've taken a different turn, but you make those saves at the right time. Goaltending is a big factor. I'm doing that Winnipeg game the other night everyone is talking and

geez I didn't love Hellebuck start looked a little leaky a little deep all of a sudden Winnipeg wakes up in the and gives him a win and now of a sudden he can settle in and play. Yeah if you're St. Louis you're like we put three passes can we lost and we lost. And I didn't love Bennington's like I thought Bennington was good early. But if you go back to that I have follow goal, like that goes through them. It's a great play. Mark Shifely was the best player on the ice. He was like bar and on unbelievable. That Ottinger, he gets high praise and there are people that talk about him. Yeah. And

he's been holding down the stretch, man. Yeah, I, man. Yeah he needs to I can't remember other than he had the series against Calgary where him and Markstrom were going back and forth and it was just like a goal-tending pre-game. Game seven he made 50 saves or 57 saves it was finally Johnny Houdrell that beat him. He just needs to get dialed in and be the guy that they paid him to be because I don't think that that guy's been there for quite some time so he needs to step it up. But that's your let's go yeah comes back to the storylines around the league after one game you're going to use that team doesn't look good let's see

the response is new jersey has a response let's see if st louis has something different tonight like you know you go through it like florida and tabloid on plate of's absurd. Like it's absurd. Like you look at some of these scheduleings you're like what is going on? Like Winnipeg and St. Louis have played their second game and that Florida series has started. I know but benefits Florida likely with the injuries and all that give an extra couple of days and I guess a build-up for what should be a great series but there's going to be adjustments and a lot of times you can look at the goalie and that's the nature of the position that even if there aren't adjustments if that one player plays great then you can steal a game or

win exactly then you move on in the series so mark mitha coming up in about a half an hour we got games tonight again we get the Habs starting their series we We got Winnipeg game two. We got the Oilers starting in LA. So a lot of Canadian content to tee up tonight. I just want to ask one thing before we end our first break. If you got up in the concourse and Brad Tree Living was about to shake a hand and say, hey, it's good to see you, would you have slid the fanny pack under the suit jacket to hide the fact you had a fanny pack on? Yeah, I would you have had it. We would have just walked the other way

He would have seen a fanny pack and said I'm sorry. That's not Brian Hayes. I When I was I was mortified walking around I got to be honest. I am NOT a fanny pack guy I have never worn one field that in my life any pack. What color was it at least black like you know? I didn't do with the my life. What color was it? At least black like you can hide it in your suit. No, it was blue with the suit. That was the beauty of it. You had a matching fanny pack to your suit. I had the A suit on with the A fanny pack last night and everything was coordinated. But I was on high alert that that thing was tucked away and everything was all good because

I was talking with a lot of people. One guy was yelling at me about being in the building like I hear him in the background he's like you can't be here I'm like how many beers is this guy had and I love that that's my right acted yourself to that that's my rest that if I'm in the building if they lose it's my fault it's over now it's over now okay it's over now. It's over now and people are sending in that The Rock picture with the fanny pack. There's me at Scotiabank. There's a lot of good content coming in online.

We'll retweet it. There's me. That was me going into Scotiabank last night. Anyway, we've got a lot to recap again looking back on game one. We've got some possible tampering out west. We'll tell you about that. And the Jays are in Houston tonight as well overdrive continues TSN 1050 and on TSN for some really bonkers stuff going on Hayes with the fanny pack move that's and that Andy Reid did me dirty today real bad. What did he do? He endorses a sketcher loafer in a commercial.

Really? Andy Reid went to the dark side, man. No. Yes. He's like, I'm a model on the side when I'm not coaching football, and I got to have comfy slip on sketchers. And I said, Andy Reid, that's not for you not buying

it man I just there's certain right now it is I gotta see any read this commercial is insane maybe it worked then that's the beauty of advertising it worked we're talking about Andy Reid we're talking about the ad is desk though they're like I love that it's like I'm too busy to actually go on a photo shoot and there's some cool different looking like Skechers, I suppose it's just I don't know. I didn't think you would go down that road I didn't see that one come you did us dirty. You've got everything. They're got fanny packs Why do they got a Skechers fanny pack? So before we get into that man? I need I already have options Before we get into the hockey comments around the National Hockey League, I want to ask

you this Hayes. If I was your caddy and I hurt my back at Augusta and Noodles subbed in for Augusta and the next week and you won with Noodles on the bag just like what Justin Thomas did would you call me and say you're out for good I'm going with noodles absolutely especially if I'm JT and I haven't won in years which I haven't so you tell the guy that heard his back you're out for good that's your problem you give him a severance and you say thank you and then you realize that I'm your good luck charm absolutely para sketches and some cash you're out noodles yes because with it it's not my back it's not my back when I could have used yet Augusta where were you I

guarantee you this guy was hammered too he was hammered he fell off a porch and he blew his back out there's some backstory and I get JT came out today and said now all good he'll be back I. There's some backstory and I get JT came out today and said, now all good, he'll be back. I love the guy. I'm not sure man. Cause if he gets back and there's an issue and JT misses the cut and the other guy's sitting there waiting for him who he just won a tournament with.

Exactly. That's very, very concerning. Tiger get rid of fluff at some point. Oh yeah. Fluff was gone, man. Him and his stash. His quote about fluff was, he's just a pothead giving me wrong marriages. That was a dirty, foul, dirty quote.

He didn't say that. That's not an exact quote. You don't think I know this? Like, I have a memory. I know that he said he's a pothead giving me wrong numbers. That might be the people that you talk to, information behind the scenes. That's not a direct quote that we could find anywhere on the interweb, is it?

I would think I would have stumbled across that. That guy's a pothead and he is not good for me. What was the quote? Pothead giving me the wrong yardages. That is one of your buddies from the masters telling you that. Like that is somebody, that's a somebody's caddy. That's you giving privilege information right now That is the worst form of malpractice though If you're a caddy and you can't get the yardage down for a guy as meticulous as tiger Yeah, no wonder fluff. Did you know petty some of those fire rings are like oh, I know one time Stevie Williams went and caddied for Adam Scott and he thought it was cool. He said yeah, I asked tiger

He doesn't have a problem with a tired Tiger. See you later. You're gone. Yeah, he had a problem with it. He's a cute bastard. You think it's funny to go caddy for Adam Scott? You're fired. You're gone. I would love the truth serum. You know, one of, again, there's series that haven't even started. A Bunch Tonight, Tampa, Florida. But there's probably a GM or a coach that would like to fire someone after one game. Like there's, there's one, whether it's, you know, it's obviously gotta be Ottawa, Jersey, St. Louis, you know, Dallas, I guess Minnesota last night, like one of the teams that have lost where it because they always exude confidence and belief and this, this kind of philosophical, well,

it's a long marathon and we think for the future I'm not buying it when you're in the trench of the playoffs like if fans are emotion emotional GM's are emotional and presidents are emotional and owners are emotional well I'm pretty sure like simple terminologies like when you get spanked in a game you probably comes across somebody's mind they're like we're in tough here yeah I don even as a hostess and we got no chance just the simple phrase of we're probably in tough i'm sure billy garrin who's not stupid watch that game and how big and strong

vegas is weren't tough here pre-empt off rightfully so but i i think that's where the emotions of that night you gotta sleep on it and wake up the next day and try and reset. Because as we all know, five seconds after a game, sometimes when you're on the losing end and you feel like you've been slighted by something

or you didn't like this, like then you're thinking, you're not thinking rationally. Like I like Travis Green's comments about his goalie. Like that was, I think that was Ken Elephant in the room. Yeah sure goalie. He's like, yeah, I like my goalie like, you know, all mark didn't play well No, all he had to say is they didn't play well Or didn't have a listen at least generated both things can be right the least generated incredible chances But he didn't stop any of them.

Right. Like he didn't give them any stops and he's got to be better. But I'm curious what you would think that that issue is for the Ottawa senators. Like if there's one thing that they look at and they say this has to change, do you think it's more Almark has to return to form? They have to keep their composure? because I will say again be in there and watching it. Kichuk and and Jaru in particular did not stop talking to the roughs like they never stopped and I was a bit surprised green didn't go to one of them or both of them say stop

it like you know let me ask you it's getting out of control not like non stop those two are over. You detailed the guys that were solid for the Maple Leafs in the first block. How many guys were lights out for the Sens last night? I thought Batherson looked noticeable. I thought Ridley Gregg did what Ridley Gregg does. He was right in the middle of everything. He scored a goal.

He threw the cross check on Tavares, which I think that the. Let's just say there's a lot of elevation to happen for a bunch of guys that they want to be serious. Absolutely. I agree. Absolutely. But the Greg scenario is an interesting one to watch because he has been under the skin of the Leafs in the past.

He was the one. That's the way he plays, man. Well, he was the empty net goal. Morgan Reilly guy. He was the guy that I said when I was in the building a month and a half ago, Chicken Wing Matthews in Lawton Fautum. And I thought, you know, in the moment watching the cross check, I thought, wow, that probably is five and he should go.

I thought so too. But I got a chance to review it and here's the difference. And a lot of people are comparing it to the Reilly one you know Matthews on Dahlene back in the day those were Those were the aggressor he was in a way protecting himself from the hit So like to take away from the fact it was a cross check It was it was but I'm trying to reason with why they just went with two minutes instead of four or instead of five I'll tell you why it was playoffs if that was a regular season He's getting he's getting five and he might get suspender for that probably no other way to defend that he could he could and again

I think that's something where you got to have perspective if you're a sense fan where you're yelling and screaming about the The refs Greg got off the hook like that was very he got he got off the hook like that that big. He got off the hook. You're right. That could have gone either way. Because we could sit here and go, that was five in a game. And that would have changed again the dynamic. You don't know if there's a suspension. Or they review it and they go, okay, yeah, like you said, he's protecting himself, gets his hands up, cross-checks him in the side of the head. It's still a cross check. It's still like it's in the side of the head or in the neck or wherever you want to claim

it. But the point being is he might have skated one. Penalties and discipline is a big part of the playoffs. And the Sens didn't have it last night. Like that's one of the things. So you mentioned it when we first started here. If one thing had to change, yes, you could just say the goalie needs to make saves, absolutely.

I would say the Sens have to defend a lot better, especially middle ice, because I just, Oliver Ackman Larson should not be afforded. Now Drake Batherson fell down on that play, but you still have to protect the middle of the ice. Like allowing guys to walk right downtown, you can't do that. Because the chances are a lot smaller in the playoffs, or should be. They should shrink, the ice should shrink.

So everything should be the outside. It should be loose puck battles in front and guys battling for open ice. Oh you said it after in our roundtable. When's the last time you heard, and Brady Kachuck said it, it was tough. They did a good job of boxing out. When's the last time you heard that? From these people?

I almost cried on the panel. I almost cried with you guys, because he goes, they were tough in front of their net and they boxed out extremely well. I made the sign of the cross and I said, oh my God. You never heard that one before. That's the sign of the cross and I said, oh my God, never heard that one before. That's the details of the playoffs is going, this is contested ice. You better, you know,

you're going to come here, you've got to pay a price. I didn't see that on the Ottawa side. So yeah, I think it couples with discipline, but I also think it's defending better, like in certain areas, you're going to give up chances chances of puck bounces over a stick a beautiful pass by Matthews to to Marner on the breakaway but you can't give freebies and I felt like there were a couple or the Leafs did a good job but there were some freebies where it's like okay well you deserve that and I thought you know the way the Leafs boxed out was pretty significant they also did something they took a page out of what Florida has done for years and they went in doubt, flipped that puck out 25 times last night. It felt like it anyway. I don't have the exact metric but that is

also a scenario where you you know you live to see another day you know when in doubt maybe if the pass isn't there always or the alleyway out of the zone or a perfect you know entry you know one way or the alleyway out of the zone or a perfect, you know Entry, you know one way or the other or what have you is not available to you and every once in a while You just got to diffuse the situation and I think that they're kind of one in the same like the idea of owning the front Of the net and making sure that you push box out and make it difficult to get inside there But also just you know when in doubt, just get it out, man. And that's an old school plan. I know it doesn't jive with the puck possession error and all that kind of stuff, but that's

what Florida did, you know, for years is they took advantage of their high end skill. They had a great goalie and when in doubt, they said, you're going to pay a price to get in here or you're going to have to go get it and regroup and try to get through us again. Tired, overthinking, past attempts in your own zone when you're dead tired lead to problems Something out icing who cares It's amazing how they don't care about icing like the last minute of a game to try to score a goal But I sit when you're in trouble to they didn't ice it a lot last night though

You know that's the thing is I think that's a skill to get it out and allow yourself to change and not icing and leave it just inside their blue that's a single it's really really leaving pressure that's all it is is like a will relieve pressure and will reset and defend a different way that's that's basically what it is it's just relieving pressure and it's it's a smart play man it's a playoff play you guys have said it about a million times we just had someone on recently was it robson i can remember who was but just said it's not i think it's a playoff play. You guys have said it a million times who we just had someone on recently I'm was it Rob's I can't remember who it was but just said so I think was pronger Chris said he's like

You're not gonna win every shift and Geo said that sometimes you just got to set up the next shift Just get out like you live to see another day. That's the playoffs Like you just you're not gonna set up a beautiful play every time you're on the ice when we come back I want you guys to think about it during the break a mini Jerry on If a team that dumped the first game can come back and win the series Alright on the league mini Jerry coming up mark Muth thought coming up overdrive continues TSN 1050 and on TSN for all right a lot of action around the NHL man these teams that didn't make the playoffs they want everyone to know They're still around Wow

lot of stuff going on there's Comments at a Vancouver a captain in Detroit making some interesting comments. We've got some turnover in Seattle after meth We're gonna do a whole news and note sections and go yes all of it We got audio video the whole thing and we we'll carry that mini Jerry over the chances of one of the teams that lost game one coming back to win the series. Alright, little mini Jerry into the next hour. I have a feeling Mark Mithought is going to be pretty high on that. Because I am too.

He's probably not higher than I am. Only one of them's got to come back and win the series. I am very high. Okay, we'll get to that more coming win the series. I'm very high. Okay. We'll get to that more coming up in our two overdrive continues. TSN 1050 and on the TSN app. You've been listening to overdrive powered by FanDuel. FanDuel bringing you everything from the opening line to the final score.

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