OverDrive - OverDrive - April 23, 2025 - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

Join Bryan Hayes, Jeff O'Neill and Jamie McLennan for Hour 1 on OverDrive! The guys discuss the Maple Leafs' win in Game 2 against the Senators, Max Domi's overtime winner, Anthony Stolarz's solid performance and the action against Ridly Greig and the stars dominance. TSN Hockey Analyst Frank Corrado joins to dive into the Maple Leafs' triumph, Stolarz leading the way in the crease and the mentality in the series.

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TSN for Brian Haseo Doug Jeff O'Neill Jamie noodles, my clinic Going on what's going on? We need a big show today. I think we took a step back yesterday The Leafs went forward and we went back. What are you talking about? You called it. Listen, no no. Doogie with the coffee started off the day. Major mishap. JP, the mic.

It was a blip. It set everything back. It's all good. And then Hazy B went to the game and he did the Instagram microphone pick. Oh my God. Dude. Yeah, it could have been a selfie.

Did you want a selfie last night? I was killing a lot of time last night. The next one, you got to just have your wife with the hand stretched out holding hands and then the microphone because that would be the I will do that topper. Do you think I'm going to be there by Tuesday night or do you think I'll be waiting for Florida Tampa? What are we thinking? You think I'll be there for game five or what's the call here? You know what Ottawa is going to throw everything at them in the first period of the next game because these guys aren't stupid.

They know that it's looking like the wild card versus the first place in the division, but and I said it last night, they can't keep hanging their hat on while we came back, while we like our five on five, while we've got a shot because it's two nothing. And you just can't, you can't keep almost, it's not rewarding yourself, but being happy about small victories because at the end of the day, it's just it. Yeah, it's about wins It's not a small victory league. It's not a developmental league. It's not we're gaining experience from this It's just it is what it is you win or you lose So they're gonna throw everything at them to try to get back into the series because they know Hayes And as well as everybody if you go down three cubb there's there's a good chance you're going down.

Yeah I could see I mean I thought the game was pretty I didn't think the Leafs had their a stuff last night. That's the you know for them to win. That was a you know that's a big you know star for them because I thought it was a muddy track. That's kind of what I mean like it was you know I don't know haze you were in a building how you felt but it it just You know for them to win and get it done. That's that's a credit to the Leafs. I thought Stolars was great again You know there were some some great individual and and defensively in the third period. They were fantastic I mean, they didn't give up any shots

It didn't give up anything, but I didn't think like it there was no separation it wasn't a lot of space out there for magic you know what I mean like it absolutely that I honestly think that was that was such an important game for the Leafs we talked about it a lot yesterday that game two will say more about them and I think it did and I think it's actually way more positive it goes without saying if you're a Leaf fan you're obviously ecstatic today they're up to to nothing in the series they have been up to nothing in a series since two thousand and two

the matthews and marner era have never been up to nothing they've never been in this position so needless to say that that is obviously uh... a very unique situation to this fan base and it's very positive one but i think the way that the game played out was actually exactly what you want it would have been it's very positive one, but I think the way that the game played out was actually exactly what you wanted. It would have been, I think you feel better about the Leafs in a weird way,

them winning in the fashion they did last night, than if they had run off and won six-nothing, and it was a laugher and gloves are dropping in the third period. Well hey, it's a lot of years we've seen the Leafs pile on the small victories, we played in a tight game. Roles are reversed. Yeah, we came back. We, we kind of made it close and we gave ourselves a chance and it's like, great.

That's exactly what I was witnessing last night. Like I saw, I've seen that so many times against Boston against Florida where it's like, these are tight games, they're close games and you could sit there and say, well, I liked our core city and I liked our high danger chances and I wish the redness Getting back in the game all of it completely irrelevant to your point Once the last goal goes in and the buzzer goes off It's over and you lost and I think what the Leafs did last night like the second period was like watching paint dry But that's a good thing

It actually I thought was a positive because into the third after Ottawa made a pushback Which you knew was going to happen and it'll be even more extensive tomorrow night But after five periods the aggregate was eight to Ottawa was down to nothing. They had a great second period They had a great second period and they pushed back and pushed and pushed and the Leafs they bent but they didn't break but then in the third period I thought the Leafs played a perfect shut down third period and one mistake, Ekman Larsen, Domi, miscommunication, Gadette with a beautiful tip and it's in and it's 2-2 and it's deflating but I think if you're Craig Barube you leave that third period and show that tape and say we do that the rest of the way you're going to be a great spot. Because they pushed everything to the outside, no odd man rushes, nothing stupid out there.

And that's what I think a lot of Leaf fans have been waiting for, for a long, long time. Talk about lessons, learning lessons, apply some lessons. And I thought they were applied last night. And I think, you know, it was obviously in the end, it's Domi and, you know, it's it was obviously in the end. It's Domi and You know, it's to nothing and it's very familiar and we'll get all into all this kind of stuff over the next few hours But I actually think the way the game played out where there wasn't much space was a low event Game was actually a real positive for the Leafs and the fact that they won clearly cherry on top that's where i was going oh you said yeah we had some missteps yesterday i felt like you called an overtime game

or tight two one three two that's where i was not you're gonna start to show with his life and i got a you break my arm pat myself on the back of the house that's i'd i swear that's what you called before you left it i said i was going to be a race to a two one or standard three two and a joe hockey game and if you don't commit to that they're not stand they did well that's what it was and that's what it was going to be a race to a 2-1 or a standard 3-2 NHL hockey game and if they don't commit to that they're nuts and they did. And that's what it was. And that's what it was.

And yeah, if you're Ottawa, you know, I thought they got better as the game went on. I thought Stootsla was really dancing in the second and third period, looked really comfortable. Brady had a good game. I thought Jake Sanderson had a good game. You know what, Brian, sorry to interrupt. The one thing, I thought it was, yeah, I thought those guys played well and all that. But the mistake they made in overtime, that's a November regular season game mistake. That's right.

To fly by. Batherson and Cousins. Well, you're right. Well, Cousins blows the tire. But Drake Batherson goes offensively and tries a backhand saucer hope through the middle that gets picked off and they go the other way so okay now you work hard to get back domi

goes through the middle this is the playoffs you gotta get a chunk of somebody got something and only like that was and i guess you can you can say all of the things lesson learned and all that but that's the difference it's a small margin for care here at you know just showing it like good good play by a

Simone Benoit is Bobby Orr here leading the rush but you know cousins blows a wheel but Batherson on the drive-by like that you gotta get a chunk of somebody through the middle of the ice. The drive-by is inexcusable especially when you're the guy that through the hope the backhand blind pass you would think that he would be looking for flesh and blood And it's just not good enough, and that's where we talk about guys like Drake Batherson is a hell of a player He's one of my favorite players to watch as a winger. He's talented. He's got skill He's got some stones like he plays with jam, but it's like There's no like you're smart enough to know what the hell you're doing

there it's not like hey Drake like let's look at the tape like I always say to people it's like a do or don't league like yeah there's no like reviewing that you think green he's gonna talk to him and say hey if this happens again tilt your shoulders no no you didn't do it and it cost us big time. And there's two of them there. It's a mistake. There's two of them there. Yeah. But that's... The backhand sauce into the middle of the ice right on Benoit's tape is the most egregious one, but the next one's just simply effort, to your point.

You just got to hit the guy. You got to be willing to step up and hit the guy. You have to do it. In games like that, I guess my point was in games like that, the margin for error is so small. And that was the margin right there. And that's the difference in a game. Because when it's a low event game, and there's not a lot of space out there, and you're just

waiting for something to happen, you don't go chasing it. You've got to let it come to you. And it was, that was a difference for me, again, in experience and non experience. And again, you make a mistake, you come back, and you miss. Drake was, Bathurst and I thought was their best player, Ottawa's best player in game one. That's a mistake yesterday, but it's a critical mistake because you clawed back into the game, you at least gave yourself a chance on a 50-50 overtime, we'll see.

But then a mistake, you go chasing it. That's a dagger. Yeah, it's see, but then a mistake you go chasing it, that's a dagger. Yeah, it's an absolute dagger. It's an absolute dagger. Credit to Max Domi because the story of Domi is Shakespearean, really. When you consider the legacy name, we've talked a lot about it for weeks here, the Battle of Ontario in the early 2000s, and Ty was in the middle of everything. He was one of the faces of the Battle of Ontario and there's his kid 20 years

later turning the lights out on Ottawa in game two meanwhile he really struggled in game one like Max was not good in game one and to the point where the only lineup change they made was flipping him with Pontus Holmberg I didn't think they were good last night and they weren't and that was the thing like and even on The on the God debt goal. They get hemmed in their own zone a little bit Ekman Larson I don't know what he was doing, but it was a communication issue clearly I thought Max was cutting left and Max didn't and then all of a sudden it's in the back of their net and you can Feel it when the when the Domi line is out there when Domi's playing with Robertson in particular and

When the Domi line is out there, when Domi's playing with Robertson in particular, and McMahon, who I don't think has been good through two games, it's tense. You can feel Barube's tense. He's like, okay, I've got to survive a shift here. They couldn't survive it. Yet, all of that is irrelevant because of what he did in overtime. It was a beautiful play. Nicky Robertson took that penalty, and he's gotta start putting one hand on a stick

when he's involved in a non-puck battle. He's turning around and hitting guys in the head. I thought it was game over for that line when he took that penalty. Yeah, well, Robertson missed a couple shifts after that, too. He got skipped, and then... 200 feet from his net, and you're just bonking a guy in the head.

It's so stupid, and that must have must have driven. I'll give the coach credit man because I would have never, I would have said, take your gear off please. And he was asked today, Baruba and he said he doesn't think he'll have any lineup changes for tomorrow night. But why would you? I don't think you would. Yeah. I mean, I guess you're on the road, different matchups. Wow. Dude, I think it's coached. I think it's tough for a coach to go away from a 2-0 lineup. I Hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying. Actually, you know what? I might take that back Could you not find a spot for patch already on the road a little heavier ball possibly? Maybe David camp who you can trust offensively to take draws and you know, I hear you I I don't know

I mean patch ready is weird because he's been out for as long as he's been out but I could see it I could see Robertson maybe coming out patch already going in Maybe David camp is an option for another guy who can take face-offs and kill some penalties I hear what you're saying and I don't know how I just I don't want to be a dick But like I don't know how camp gets in that lineup right now It's okay. We just know what we said about Nick Robertson, you know, like two weeks ago we didn't think he was going to play. And now you know, you're not, no one's given anything. This is the NHL, it's the Stanley Cup playoffs.

But I hear what you're saying. And I also, there's a part of me that thinks there's a message being sent here because the Leafs in Borubi, what I've been impressed by, it's easy to do this clearly when you're winning. They're winning down the stretch, they win the division, they win game one, they win game two. They are exuding confidence and they're very quiet. I haven't seen a headline quote to comment.

I haven't seen anything. I know Barube said after game one, talk to the league or that's not my job. I'm seeing a lot at Ottawa. They're talking a lot in Ottawa about the officiating about how they're not Panicking which I'm not buying for a second that you can't wait to get that back to their building And I got some clips that will play here throughout the hour But I think that might be what you're talking about Oh is if you make a lineup change would that indicate you're not confident?

Like do you want to send that Message to your group or do you want to just keep chugging and can't say everyone keep playing like why would we change anything right now? It's possible the one thing I will say which I loved and I don't know if that happens a lot in any market Like Drake Batherson did in media today and yes said Which I loved it, you know, like because he's a hell of a player and he made a mistake, you know That's that's what we talked about in the playoffs So, you know we've we've how many times have we come on this show it regardless of the market going? Yeah, we didn't hear from that guy. They didn't didn't make him available didn't make like it

It would have been easy for what Ottawa to go not available today, you know We'll have them chat tomorrow after the game like but instead he instead he comes out and goes, hey, you know, learning. I made a mistake. I got so on me, which I'm I, I think that's a positive sign for a kid that, you know, they could have easily hit and just said not available. He's played two playoff games. Like he's saying it. That's all he's played.

Like Drake Patterson, he's got no playoff history. But, but in the end, you know, I don't think they're I still think you're trying to tweak things I agree with you oh like you go with the same lineup but it's a different venue it's different you don't get last change you don't get other things and it's not like Robertson had been lights out like he's a guy I think who's got a shorter leash it. You know everybody else in that lineup I think Craig Berube trusts in certain situations now Maybe Robertson surprises us just like Max Domi did because Max Domi was not great That's the thing about him. He had a big opportunity. That's all you need

Yeah, he could score a goal like at any moment He could wheel down the ice and rip one home, but man, that penalty, I said it to Duthie on the preview show, I'm like, he does some things he looks like and he does it a lot. He gets scratched, he comes back in the lineup, he scores a goal. He sits superior, he comes back and scores a goal. But sometimes he does some wacky things out there, man. Like a giveaway, a silly play on the power play that leads to a breakaway and a goal or dumb penalties.

This guy's prone to take dumb penalties. Well, listen, they got through it last night. The Leafs are up 2-0. What's very clear is Pontus Holmberg's going to stay with Tavares and Nylander. That line was much better last night. Willie was really good last night. And they like them. The Matthews liners are going to change.

That Tavares line is not going to change. And Lawton Yarncroke and Lorenz is not going to change and lot in your croak and lorenz is not going to change but that is is and what is very clear also is if you're you're watching it he's got a lot of faith ruby in the second larson benoit pairing if they're playing more minutes in carlo and riley uh... yet morgan riley now to ask you games we learned of points

buried the lead in the inner boy that's there is i mean mean this every like listen he had a tough year it a really tough year you know the toughest year of his career would argue the way he played now it was great for the team so it didn't matter it didn't have to be a daily conversation he was healthy so it was all good it's not like he had to suffer through injuries or anything like that but you know Riley he didn't have the greatest year he's off the power play because they're going with the five man unit and we'll get to that because it was successful again last night. But this is what was always in front of him was you're a playoff performer.

Like he's earned that reputation based on how he's played throughout his career. Every time he got to the playoffs, this guy gets to another level and he contributes. And you look at the numbers, they speak for themselves, man. Like if you're going to contribute points and offense and five on five goals You're just you're you're a huge asset to the team and I credit record last night with defensemen goals He's like 13th or no. No, he's like he's high up there for defensemen goals in the playoffs, right? Third or something. Well, it's someone had again I saw something of like points per 60 minutes or whatever five on five for certain i games and he's up there like above kale mccarr

and like that's the kind of numbers he's put up throughout his career uh... so i mean it was in all of it turned out to be an all-around positive night like the room by all accounts was buzz and they're ecstatic and you know i was talking about last night after I posted the mic online that it's almost like you know we're in a time machine here and we're back in 2002 or 2004 because if you're a Leaf fan it's just positive vibes and you're pushing Ottawa out and OT winners and if you're in Ottawa you have

to be thinking I can't put this is is it gonna happen again like are the Leafs gonna come in here and and beat them again and go 5-0 in the playoffs obviously they're in the driver's seat you know they were talking about it postgame Travis Green was talking about a Brady Kachuk they're all saying what you would expect them to say I understand what they're saying but I don't buy it that there's no panic in that room. How can there not be panic in the room? You're down to nothing You're going home. There's uncertainty of what the roof what the building's gonna look like

And I got to be honest all mark last night. I thought he looked really shaky again really shaky But you got it together and we're talking about 10 minutes of hockey. I didn't think there was anything he could do on the first two. I mean those one of those they throw it towards the net it goes off the goalie state like that goes off the who Jensen's leg right. He's redirecting the goal and then Riley's is a scene play beautiful pass by Nylander like to me, I don't know. I thought he looked really good, like in tights.

Like he stopped. Was that home? Who got the breakaway? Was that Holmberg? Well, Tavares had a breakaway. He didn't get it off, though. Sanderson got back. I think it was.

I mean, you can't blame him on that. You need Batherson to get under a stick there. And then this power play goal I thought his positioning was fine on it it just it redirects this goes literally off of Nick Jensen in the net so watch it goes off his stick off Jensen in the net like that's he's playing the rebound like I didn't have a problem with those goals what I did have a problem with is again Ottawa's penalty kill gives up a goal nineteen seconds in like you know you lose the draw you don't get set up

like that penalty kill that's killing you like literally and about conversely that i believe you know that's what's winning games for the leaves is that penalty killers is killed over the power play house one for one last night yes that's it i mean yeah and i guess you know the dom goalie screen, I don't know. He's given up a lot of goals in two games.

Well, yeah. To me, he did the bench thing. No one in the rink knew what he was doing. To me, it looked like he was kind of stalling or something. And he just looked shaky to me. But I don't know. I look at it like now you got to, he hasn't won in a long time in the playoffs. Like if you're in Ottawa, I'm sorry. I just don't think you can say I feel great about Lena Solmark

I don't think you can say that like you're over here. You can't I mean he didn't play well in game one and and you know They he gave loud three and the other guy allowed to you're not feeling anything Hayes You're saying we need and you better because that's where it's at you know yeah well exactly I mean there's no feeling anything it's like yeah like I said do it or don't it's like you got to probably be the best player on the ice tomorrow night or your team's in big-time trouble and probably now not yeah he's got the best game of the series clearly yes yeah like he's got to be great and I thought Stolar has made a couple timely saves last night. Ottawa Press, Dylan Cousins

had a chance with two minutes. Yes, a glove save. That was an unbelievable save. Yeah, it was an unbelievable save. And then Batherson with a little curl and drag, he misses it short side. But those were two pretty grade As with a couple minutes left in regulation that looks a little bit different It's not term to grade a because Matherson misses The net but I thought Stoller's made a couple again timely saves that needed to agree for you

Yeah, and you know any almost killed Ridley Gregg at one point and yeah, I thought the refs did a good job They just stayed out of the way. I don't know what Gregg did. I don't care what the refs do, but look at this. There's one. I don't know what Gregg did. There's two. The slash was like, okay.

And then this one here, Paul Bunyan chopping Brock, and then on the way by he gets him. I don't know how he got two minutes. I don't know how Gregg got two. Like Johnny was telling me that it was embellishment and he shouldn't have gone down that badly. I'm like, I don't know, the guy's 6'6 with an anger on and he just chopped his ankles off and punched him in the back of the head. I had that interaction as six minutes for Stolarz and zero for Greg. I agree.

My only thought is that, again, we know that the league and the officials are constantly discussing the series and the ebbs and flows of it As if they've marked Greg as hey, you're lucky you stayed in the game game one You pulled the old oops. I got tripped and ran into stole ours in game two like this one. That's a grease He knew what he was doing. He bails and runs into him Oh, so what do you think the refs went up to stole ours and said, okay No, that's not what I out of flash now and i got in on a nice about our talent reagan stop messing around because i'm gonna let this guy give you one that that's what it felt like to me

i felt old-school like you're both getting to you can see is to talk about you guys all used to say for the net guys which is there are you then off to the fifth cross-check. That's enough. That's what I think the refs did last night for Stolarz because it was Greg. I think if that's somebody, if that's bad person. Even in the playoffs by this standard in today's game, those are penalties. They were crazy, crazy wags.

The reason I thought he got the penalty, Greg, because we know Stolarz. You could have taken your pick. You could have had way more than two minutes. thought he got the penalty greg because we know still are see if you could take your pick ralph you know i don't know that you're going to assume but let's just call it to it's the reason why i thought greg got it is because there he didn't have to go back through the crease on this just second fly by yes because he could have you know you can he could have taken that abuse at this okay and then the rest of the call that had right here at this last should have been called

that there's a slash That's a brawny hex dolls, but that's all there's no call on that nothing But now what he's to do he comes back behind him through the crease. So that's where Greg knows He's coming back for an interaction, right? So that's the only thing so I thought the ref though if anything That's probably a four and two or you know some type of thing and he just said both you getting it move on with an Ottawa can't complain about the roughs anymore like they I don't believe Scott you do it well there was a clip today do we have the the green clip from today guys I don't know if we do or not okay we have it I'm curious what you think this I don't know who asked this

question because we do like to do the who asked that question routine. This one feels... Well, there's some dopes in there that are asking stupid questions. There's some weird stuff. Why are they... Anyways... Ask... I know what you're going to say.

That was Simmons last night asking about Max Domi after the game. Well, yeah. It's a tough one. Greeny gave him a good answer. I will say that. He did give him a good quote, but you're right. No one's asking Barube, hey, you played against Keith Kachuk. What's it like to see Brady out there?

I don't recall that being asked. Anyway, it was a good, I didn't mind it. I thought sides tough when it's Max that scores the O2 winner and his team's down to nothing, but Green handled it really, really well. I thought he did. I don't know who asked this question. This feels like a plant to me. Like you tell me if I got the, I got the tinfoil hat on.

This feels like a question that was someone said said can you make sure this question gets asked by tiger woods rolled up piece of paper yeah i don't have a picture you get this one as my phone number one stop we want the lead to have our eyes on something this is what went down earlier today i went over the video overtime st was there a chance that there might have been

too many men on the ice for the leveson others couple last night definitely to the doctor to their spake away was to me i think that seven guys we looked over it and the overtime one arguably consider was part of the game

that's a plant i have an idea What is that question? That's Gord Wilson and I love Gord Wilson I know but come on It was a 2 on 4 I'm watching and I'm saying where are the Leafs? The Leafs have 3 guys on the ice Who on earth is watching that OT winner?

It's good analyst work if he combed over and looked at how many guys I got Greeny handled that well Like Greeny didn't I was waiting for Greeny to go over a little bit how many are you know i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i You're going a little bit far on that. All right. But I just, I think when you're getting...

Combing the tapes? You're combing the tapes. That's an interesting one. I found that interesting. Well here's the thing too. You got to have questions at these scrums because last night outside of it being a 3-2 overtime win, there wasn't a high event. It felt like a notch had come down a little bit from the intensity from game one.

Hayes, you were in the building. I don't know if you can tell me. It was a very different game. It was carbon copy first. The Leafs are up 2-0. That goes without saying. Ottawa's game plan tomorrow night is maybe you've got to score first. You have to.

It's imperative they score first. So it's 2-0, the building's rocking. In the second period, the Leafs had no shots, like nothing. They didn't have any play. Like Ottawa was really pushing and pushing and pushing, but a lot of it again was on the outside and then you had the Greg and Stolar stuff, which was that lit an engine,

lit a fire under the place a little bit. But yeah, it was a lower event game. It was not nearly, and I think Ottawa got the message like they they were much more Disciplined and they they they played I thought they played well last night But in the end the Leafs find a way to win an overtime All right, Frankie Corrado coming up. We'll get his take on on the game last night We've got Struddy coming up tonight with the Oilers game, too We've got the Habs in Washington game two tonight. We got the Jays

We'll see if they can register maybe three hits tonight. That would be nice to see if they can sneak in a few hits tonight Because they're back in Houston and back to 500 a chance to possibly dip below 500 tonight We'll get to that a little bit later on role play level of concern in an hour overdrive continues TSN 1050 and on TSN 4. That on Saturday, if you have a blonde mullet, you go down to the Hockey Hall of Fame and a Philly Prichard look-alike Stanley Cup holder of the Cup contest. Is that true? Are you talking about like a one off or every Saturday that happens? No this Saturday coming up I think there's a lookalike, Philip Pritchard lookalike at

the hockey hall of fame. No way. I haven't heard that. Dude, I swear. Are they trying to hire a stunt double just so this guy can have a life? You know what I mean? Make sure it gets there on time too. But dude, you look into it and and see what you get if you win.

I love that idea. I think we might need to send Al's brother down there in a blonde college with white gloves on and a Stanley Cup. You think that's a winner, Al's brother with a blonde wig and white gloves on? I think it would be, yeah. I would start a GoFundMe. I would fund that. We need Al's brother in a blind i think you can do with it

i think you keep dices hair and gets white gloves and parts it right down the middle and goes downtown do we have a better shot i think they might have worked duties got a little bit of a pritchard vibe to him i think i think so that there it is simply caught on the keeper con bit of a Pritchard vibe to him. I think so. Yeah, there it is. Stanley Kahn, the Keeper Kahn, calling all Phil Pritchard look-alikes at the holiday. This can't be real. Somebody made that up.

Dude, I swear to God it's real. It's real as hell. That looks like a legit sign. I mean, I don't know who's... Why would they be posting it around the city like a lost dog? Does that tape to a pole somewhere? Doogie, is that the best pic you got of this thing? Like there's legit things online. That looks photoshopped. Legitimately, that doesn't look real.

Doogie, can you confirm? It's real. It is real. Call the Hall of Fame. Tell them it's us. They love us. See if we can submit a contestant. See if we can submit a contestant.

Like we should have, we could do it very quickly. April 26th. Oh yeah, we only have a couple days left. April 26th. April 26th. April 26th. April 26th. April 26th. April 26th. April 26th. April 26th. See if we can submit a contestant. See if we can submit a contestant. We should have, we could do it very quickly.

April 26th. Oh yeah, we only have a couple days. Doogie, look at that pic. You tell me, if you dyed your hair and put white gloves on, a black dress jacket and a blue dress shirt, do you think you win the contest? Brown pants. I would easily win this contest. I think so.

I do, Doogie do you've got a real Philip Richard vibe man I think we sent Doogie in and this guy what is the prize you get to get this day what's the prior is that be an incredible giveaway that they'd obviously never do it but if you get a replica or something set it up at a you know yeah but imagine you're a Stanley Cup party and your family is like, so let me get this straight, you have the cup because you look like Philip Pritchard. That is accurate. And we're throwing a party.

Okay. I love it. We've got to put, we've got to look more into that. Dougie, you got to go. We're all in tomorrow, I believe. You've got to show up with a blonde wig. We'll put you on air. Let's see if we can like create a Phil Pritchard

Go get a blonde wig some white gloves a black jacket and a blue shirt and we'll see if it's good enough tomorrow that you Was there a number to call there to see if we can enter you just show up I didn't see if there was a number there. I mean, are they turning people away? Could you imagine it's such a big turnout that they have to turn people away? I find that hard to believe, but maybe I'm... Dude, it's unfortunate because you know that there is going to be possibly a hundred guys

that look nothing like them. You know what I mean? Well, that sounds... Like there's Dan... With a beard and, you know, like it just, how much do you really commit? It's not an Elvis impersonation. I think you gotta get a task force

that goes outside in the line and just taps people and says, just stop it. Like an auto-cut, you're out. Like you're not coming in. You're not coming inside. Yeah, you're bothering people. You're not making it. So we could send Doogie, who would look like him,

and then we could send Al else brother and see if he Gets rejected and I like that idea there. We go. Yes. Let's do a case study else brother and do you can see who's got a better shot? Maybe Frankie Corrado wants to go down there. He'll go down I think Frankie's got some Philip Pritchard vibes going on. I think that's possible I'll tell you what all four of us have an uncle that could go down everyone's got an uncle with a mullet and just Bye Absolutely, right you close your eyes and see him. You're like that's

Here he is Frankie Corrado, what do you make of that Frank any chance you want to fire down to the Hall of Fame on Saturday? Dude, I'm mad if I got to go of the four oh one these days i'm not even joking like there's no chance i want i don't want anything to do with any itself of the four oh one unless i say i mean i really here as yeah uh... i don't know about the highway seven that's true and that's what was the topic i'm not brought that up because i want to i want to issue

a thank you to the week for the 730 start yesterday Because you never got anywhere close. I flew down the parkway yesterday I was in the building for the anthems last night the harmonicas. I was waiting for the harmonicas. I don't lie. Sorry I don't believe that I've never saw you leave the building I've never looked out on theow and I go that guy's parking in that rink at 845. I'm telling you man. He was in the shoulder.

I guarantee you were driving like Gordon Miller. Totally legal. It was not the old, there's the gold bus lane that you always see one guy and a tourist or something flying down. Because everyone knows the transition in the city. If you've ever gone 401 onto the DVP, it's insane to just transition onto the parkway. There was nothing. I made that turn going 80 onto the parkway.

I've never done that in my life. And I was going 100 all the way down. I never stopped. It was unbelievable. I was pulling into my spot. You know where it is. I'm still not telling anyone at seven. So greasy, man.

I got a big spot I get it out so easily there is no better feeling Hayes you just experienced it last night when you turn onto that Parkway and it's somewhat clear I mean like the DBP like you because you feel like what's wrong here because that's always like in your mind you're going I got to get downtown from the studio or whatever That's 40 minutes and 18 minutes is sitting there going around that one bend as you get halfway down That's right. People just want to slow down and I don't know look at the trees or whatever But you there's no better feeling on the DVvp when you see road ahead of you walk you are just like i'm not a bit i thought i saw someone hit in the t p five at the

null the like you know that all this right off the side of the park where there are like i think someone's out there playing golf so i'm like this world's are colliding here it's a beautiful thing uh... but i made it and it was great and uh... like what do you what do you take out of last night frank Frank? Where does your head go first when you consider where the Leafs are at?

Through two games, but specifically what happened last night. I mean, there's a few things. First of all, it's almost been skewed by the Leafs playing with the lead in this series, because they get off to these early leads, and then the game becomes a like let's just trap it up and let's kind of congest things let's pack it in around the house and Ottawa of course they have the puck they're playing with it in the offensive zone

Toronto blocks a million shots and you know that's where I think that the five on five conversation comes alive for the Ottawa Senators where it's like you know we're doing some things we're happy with how we're playing at 5 on 5, we're getting chances. Well, that's because Toronto is not at a 2-0 lead looking to go 3, 4, 5, which is what they would have done in the past and maybe had been exposed for opening things up a little bit. So Toronto playing with the lead is big. Anthony Stolarz, like, you know, we can do the history lesson on the goaltenders of years past for Toronto, but it's like, you know, Freddie Anderson, when he was more in his prime, although he is on fire right now in Carolina, he didn't have this developed and mature of a team in

front of him. You know, Jack Campbell, Ilya Samsonov, pinch hitting Joseph wall like it never had this feel of Anthony Stolar's where Yes confidence in the guy's ability But looking like a monster and not letting in a leaky goal like just you know making Making the saves you're supposed to make and then a few along the way that you're not Necessarily supposed to and like noodles talks about like the timely save and the power play like the power play just gets right to work There's no messing around it's a face-off win and it's like a set play that they've drawn up and

they work it really well and Matthew Nyes plays a big part in all of that because having that big extra body in front of the net has forced whatever defenseman it is whether it's Shabbat or Jensen or Sanderson to make a decision and we're seeing like if you want to stay with Nice and be all over him well now your skate gets twisted up and it goes in off your skate and in the net or if you want to be all over Nice it opens up John Tavares for a tip and a rebound goal like there the the power play has a plan and it's executing like very very quickly. Is that just bad mojo

do you think Frankie I mean you killed penalties Hayes I'm sure you killed penalties as the fenceman like we me and Johnny were kind of we had differing opinions on it where he was like you can't chase as much and I'm like I think when a power play scores on you that early you got to go into attack mode as a killer and maybe don't let them set up or have any kind of time at all. Like if you watch Jake Sanderson and it's a fluky goal, Tavares just threw it on net, but he's five feet away from him. He just kind of stayed.

There's no pressure at all. So when you're on a streak like that, like if they're sitting, the penalty killers are in a room. What do you think their penalty killer coach is saying? Or is it just a bad streak? First thing is you got to win a draw. Yeah. That's the first thing you have to draw yeah yeah to that a man to that when a face off and credit like John Tavares has been digging in and he'd like Claude Giroux is a good face-off guy

but with that being said oh I would I would say it this way you have one bad game in a series on the penalty kill, you don't necessarily abandon what your scheme is, what your philosophy is. You say, this is how we kill penalties, we're going to do it. Now you have two where you get exposed, I think you have to have that conversation and say, we have to make an adjustment based on what Toronto is doing because they did it to us two games in a row now. And if it happens three games, we're basically being negligent in the fact that we're getting exposed for things.

So maybe you do have to be overly aggressive. And then it's not like that plays into Toronto's hand. Because if you haven't done that all year, and now you're just running around, like Toronto's got good players. They'll snap it around. They'll put it through your skates. They'll put it through your stick.

Now that's an uncomfortable situation for you. But you have to put yourself there because you're getting you're getting exposed otherwise So like that's I think that that's part of the the game within the game in all these series, but like Toronto's Toronto's got the one up in a lot of different categories right now Well, and that's where I was gonna go Frankie is you can talk about winning or losing a draw But I I would say when you look at penalty kills when they're passive, and we had Gio in studio with us yesterday and what did he say to you and I, Hayes, where he said a penalty kill when they

get scored on, it gets in their head a little bit. Like they sit on the bench and if you feel like, God, I missed that one or I missed my assignment there, he goes, like, confidence is a fragile thing, especially, you know, that game one really mess with their psyche a little bit. So then, you know, game two, they only have one chance and it's in the back of the net pretty, you know, pretty quickly. And like I was pointed out, hey, it's like, I thought it was a bad bounce for all Marcus, you could see Jensen tries to make the, I'm going to the back door, I'm going to take that away and it hits him and goes in the net.

But in the end, that penalty kill I think is struggling. They're too passive. And you know what? You're right. If you're too aggressive on five forwards that want to move the puck around, I don't know if you'd like to go down swinging being aggressive or going down swinging or not swinging and just standing there Watching it's gonna be aggressive always aggressive Killing Carolina it's the Peter LaVulette model and they are gonna pressure you all over the ice

Nice skill player no matter how good you are if you were pressured Especially in any situation where they have the puck on their backhand and they're blind to the play, you attack every single time. Right. Yes. Yeah. That's exactly it. I mean, Alain Vigneault had this thing where he called it like eyeballs and, you know, behinds, let's say it.

But holes, yes. Right? Yes. Yes. If you're looking at... I've heard it. Yes. Yeah.

Exactly. It's like a... a whatever it's a say and it was always like if you see eyeballs Well now we got a we got to not be passive, but we're eyeing up in that situation We're eyes to eyes because you're looking at me You're in complete control you see that guy's behind and you're going and then the next guy's going and then the next guy's going And it's like that's when you apply the pressure and listen I think Ottawa would be doing that just like everyone else there's no big secret really what it comes down to is a lot of these teams kill the same way a lot of these teams do the same kind of you know schemes it's how well do you execute them and can you get a bounce or two along the way can you get a save along

the way does Toronto bobble a puck how many times have we seen Bob the Toronto in years past on the powerplay? They do everything they want to do and when it comes to pulling the trigger, for some reason it bobbled on Auston Matthews and he hit the glass with a puck. That has happened so many times for Toronto, not happening right now. I don't know, sometimes you get the breaks, sometimes you earn the breaks, but Ottawa, they need to, if you're going to go down swinging, go down being aggressive. Don't go down being passive.

Detroit had a passive penalty kill this year. It was 68%. It was terrible. Right. Always. And Carolina, to O's point, Carolina had the best penalty kill. It was uber aggressive. So you can kind of look at how trends go around the league.

Right. And last night, again, the again the lease on one power play you know i guess the night before it got crazy that sex and they burned them but there for for several power play the numbers are outrageous considering what we've seen from the lease power play in the past and you know you look at that the matthews line of curious where you stand on this frankly all of us i think you know again i think you bring up a great point they've been up to

nothing so quick the game to the complex of the game changes the you could tell you the messaging from peru bay is changing the mentality is going to change you don't want to make mistakes and i think the lease of that a really good job of of simplifying games and pushing stuff to the outside not given up on man russians for the most part uh... and i think the matthews line probably symbolizes that

because they really weren't dangerous last night, but they also I thought they kind of set a tone for how this team is supposed to play in moments like that, which is really what you need from your captain, from your leader. And we talk about 69 goals and the highest paid player in the league in heart trophies and rockets ultimately the only thing that guy needs matthews in particular he needs to win he needs to be on the winning teams and i think he's done that with the winning habits quote unquote it's just not that sexy through two games

uh... but on the flip side of that if he turns it up if i'm auto and i'm looking at him thinking this guy could burn me at any point that's a scary proposition. Yeah, and Hayes, you know what? I don't even know if it's a matter of turning it up. I think it's just a matter of, like, the team has a lead, we're in a comfortable spot, and Toronto so many times in the past was like, we need more. We need to press for more, and we are not satisfied with this.

We want to win this game 4-0, 5-0. And I'm not saying you have to sit back and just be on your heels the rest of the night and let the other team continue to attack you. But there's something to be said for just, we're doing what's right in the moment. And we're not trying to push. We're trying to win a hockey game.

And I think the Matthews line, that's where they fall into that category right now, where the team gets off to an early lead and it's like, well, we don't have to open things up. We don't have to take unnecessary risk. If the puck is along the wall in the offensive zone, we're not, like Mitch Marner's not just shoveling it into the middle because he feels like he urgently has to make something happen right away on this touch on the puck. There's an element of of patients to their game

and if they get into a situation going to you know these two games in ottawa if they're down a goal if they're down two goals we probably see that that restaurant factor come back in and it's like okay now they're cooking they're really pressing but maybe that's part of the the learning curve in the maturity for this group where it's like we just need to do what matters for winning this game and that is the first priority as far as what we're doing. In year nine it's got to be moving forward.

Alright Frankie, good stuff pal, thank you for doing this. Alright boys, have a good one. There he is, Frankie Corrado joining us. We got Struddy coming up, Jason Strudwick in 15 minutes. Big in LA tonight big one Stewart Skinner We'll get the start of Ander Keynes gonna make his return his debut tonight on the season So we'll catch up with Strudy We got the Habs obviously down in Washington big one for Montreal as well roleplay level of concern coming up We'll start looking ahead to game three in Ottawa tomorrow. Overdrive continues. TSN 1050 and on TSN 4.

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Full details at tsn1050.ca. It was great to see Matthew Kachuk out there, looking like 100%. Two goals in and the system last night. That was a fast beating. Wasn't that? That was wild, man. It was like, it was quick too. Like they were on the board quick and I didn't see that coming.

I don't know how the series unfold Hayes, but it's just like, it's almost like the coach had so much faith in this team that what they're going to do and how they're going to approach it come playoff time that down the stretch it was like, you know, I'm going to win a division. I don't care. You don't want home ice. I don't care because I know what you're going to do. Yeah. And that's what they did. Yeah. They took care of business. That's right. Tampa didn't look very good and Florida looked really good. You know, so that's a game one for them. It's only one game, it's only one game. And alright, we got games tonight, we'll catch up with Struddy,

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