OverDrive - OverDrive - February 17, 2026 - Hour 2 - Frank Corrado

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Join Bryan Hayes, Jeff O’Neill and Jamie McLennan for Hour 2 on OverDrive! TSN Hockey Analyst Frank Corrado joins to discuss Canada's quarterfinal matchup against Czechia, Connor McDavid's role and USA gearing up for Sweden. The guys discuss Tiger Woods' potential return to the Masters Tournament, they go around the sports world in the latest edition of Confirm or Deny and the FanDuel Best Bets.

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Something to chew on, brought you by Boston Pizza coming up. Frankie Corado will join us. And we're waiting for the women. final, the men's quarters goes down tomorrow, the Olympics continuing, it's kind of crazy, you got the Olympic games going on, you have the NBA All-Star game take place,

and like the Leaves are back on the ice, the trade freeze, you know, comes off relatively soon by the end of the week, I believe, and you got spring training back. Like, it's like the Jays, it felt like game seven, the World Series was like four days ago. I know. By the way, that NBA

All-Star Games, please stop stop coming up with your ideas. And it's just gotten out of it. Like it's so bad. The whole thing is garbage. It's all garbage. They have to, I don't know how they're going to do that, man.

Like, I don't know what would make those guys want to play and be interested, Hayes, because it is, like, it's just so pathetic. There's no all-star game where anybody cares. And that's ultimately the problem. Like,

that's really at the core of it. You just hit it. When the audience knows the players don't really care, and they're not really trying, then no one's really going to be committed to it. and it's the same way when the NHL does their All-Star game, the Pro Bowl is insane now. But why did it?

The Pro Bowl is... They're playing flag football. They're doing a skills competition on the field. It's horrendous. Horrendous. When did it start? When did the decline start when they started making, like, really serious dollars? Like, what happened to the All-Star game when Gretzky versus Lemieux,

and it was a massive event, and it was like a big deal to play in it, and care, it's gone up in smoke, man. It's gone up and smoke. I guess it's just the vigorous schedules and the money that guys make, and they just don't care, but they literally don't want to go. And I think parity has something to do with it, too. Guys are like, I'd rather have a weekend off rest of my body, and, you know, you're playing every night to me.

And money factors in. You're right, oh, but guys making 10 million years, like, you know what, I don't really care to go. And they should focus on that you're trying to partner with the league and grow the game. That's really the thought process. I think they should have some sort of – it doesn't even have to be an on-ice event. Maybe like a bizarre, like something go in for a weekend, and it's meet and greets. It's different types of things because the NHL is awful.

Remember it was Patrick Keynes wearing a Superman outfit? They're all brutal. There were some outrageous. What about in Vegas where the Zegra's kids? had had the, like he had an outfit on and it was, I don't know, it's good. There's one possibility, it's baseball. It's like, Otani pitching to judge.

You know, like you might get that. You might get skeins pitching to judge. You're like, I'll take it. I'll take it for that moment. Let's see what he's got. Well, baseball, it's hard to mail in a baseball game. Yeah, you kind of. Like, it's still a great game to watch.

It definitely can be. Again, the result doesn't matter. That's another thing. Like, no one's got a connection to the American League. Oh, go American League. You know, like, who the hell cares? You know what I mean? Like, nobody cares.

And it's the same thing. Like, oh, USA versus the world. What the world is, hey, you know, we got a group chat going on over here in the world. I'm talking to people in Argentina and Japan, and everyone's jacked because the world is playing the U.S. at the All-Star game. I think he just got to get ahead of it.

Whoever the – whoever runs the leagues just have to say, this is just no longer a thing. It's no longer a thing. We will name All-Stars, and that's the – extent of it. It's a weekend off in the league. They must be making money or something, though. That's the thing, right? It's got to be lucrative in some way. Well, dude, you saw how many people in downtown Toronto were walking around here a couple

years ago. Like, it was nuts. It means something in those markets. The local economy. Exactly. In that particular city that gets it, it's good for that economy. It's good for that fan base. Outside, people watching it don't care. They don't like it. Yeah. That's ultimately the reality of it. And I don't know. There's a lot of lot of bitterness, man. Aaron Judge, we'll play the clip a little bit later. Like, Judge, he's usually pretty reserved, captain of the Yankees, Mr. Yankee. You know, he took a pretty good run at their offseason. And it's pretty fun to see the Yankees just take heat, not externally, but internally.

Like, there's some grisly people to start the season. That's stinky old Don Dombrowski and Philly with the comments. Yeah, not happy. Like, there's a lot of weird stuff going on. A lot of weird stuff going on. But anyway, we'll play that. We'll play some Tiger audio. We'll get to confirm it tonight a little bit later this hour. Joining us here on the Maple Toyota Hotline. Here's our good friend, Frankie Corrado. A little roundtable.

What's happening, Frankie? Yeah. What's up? How are we doing? We're doing well. We're doing well. Well, it's good to have you. And, you know, obviously you've been watching all of the hockey. And on the men's side, what do you make of the news that appears to be almost

confirmed that we're going to get U.S. Sweden in the quarters, and the Americans will clearly be a heavy favorite, but do you think Sweden's got a chance at possibly upsetting them in the quarterfinals? Yes, yes, they do, but there's a lot of weird stuff happening with Sweden, but it feels like all the weird stuff that happens, they've seemed to overcome it, like they've had some shoddy goaltending at times. There's some weird roster decisions like Phil Forsberg's hardly playing at times. OEL's not really playing at times. Yes, for Brad's a healthy scratch, but I mean, the Swedish team is this.

It can be really good in net. It has an unbelievable blue line. And you have speedy, creative wingers. Where they lack is down the middle of the ice. Like, that's where you're going to find a way to expose the Swedish team. And what are the Americans? The Americans are solid in net, just as good of a blue line, and really solid down the middle of the ice. So if it, you know, if it comes to a USA Sweet and USA wins, it feels like where they're going to,

where they're going to win that game is down the middle. That's where the pace, U.S. can drive the pace a little bit more and have Sweden chasing the game. Frankie, if you could give the U.S. and the Canadians some truth serum, who do you think wants the other one punted more and just says, we don't want to deal with them, period? Do you think it would be the Canadians or the Americans? No, it's the Americans.

The Americans would say we don't want anything to do with Canada. When you see the way McDavid is playing right now, like a guy possessed and we know how good McDavid is and he's clearly taking his game to another level to the point where guys on his own bench are saying, hey, nice hit Tom Wilson, except it was McDavid who made the hit. I think that's where the U.S. said, I don't know, like this guy might have unleashed something that we didn't know was there. Like if your team Canada, you look at the American team and you say, there's no surprises. We know exactly what they are, right?

Like a very good team. Big team. They want to try and check us. everyone's been trying to check those Canadian players, the best guys, their entire lives, their entire careers. And they found a way to score and overcome it and be the best at every single level. So I don't think that scares them. But when you see the best in the world achieve a different level, I think that's what would spook the Americans a little bit and say, we didn't know this guy had this much more.

And does that drive everyone along a little bit more? Now, with that being said, don't you guys feel like? Team Canada has to clean up a little bit of some of the stuff they're doing with the Pock, like at around offensive blue lines. It feels like there have been some times where it's a little... Oh, Frankie, see you later. Frankie just said, see you later. I love that that audio was...

Cion is known as porch or something? It sounds like he's by a creek or something. Can you hear the water in the background? I love that it just, like, cut out. Like, that's the first time I've ever seen it. it like drop live on air and it make that noise. It's like this guy is out of here. He's got a beautiful office in his house and he's just like, let me go down by the creek

and sit by the tree and call the guys. He's got twin young girls. You have no idea what probably this guy is dealing with that. But my thing is he was just about to criticize Team Canada. I know. We had something great. And all of a sudden like something, but he turned there. Okay, let's head back down to a van down by the river.

A van down by the river. All right. Well, if Frankie can't come on, it's all good because we'll see what happens. But I just think he was about to say, like, Team Canada does have to clean up some stuff. There has been a little bit of sloppy. They're just good enough to get by. And that's what bothers me about it is they haven't seen a good opponent yet. It's a good opponent.

Yeah, I mean, Czech is, again, they've already played Chequette, so they're going to play them again. And Chekney, I think, Frankie, you've seen some of the comments. They've had fun with it. like NACA said, hey, we threw the first game because we knew we couldn't beat him twice in a row, which is a great line. You know, I've seen some people right, and be like, you better jump on that. Dude, he's joking. Like, he knows Canada's Canada.

Everyone knows it. And what about people jumping on the handshakes? They were like, you guys better show this on overdrive, how the Americans, by the way, the guy was 30 feet up in the air, and he was sticking his hand out, and the Americans couldn't even see the guy. and then the Canadians were all slapping the guy's hand. It was like, you guys better show this. I also think the guy had a team Canada jersey on, so why are you high-fiving the guy with a team Canada jersey?

He might have. It was so silly, and then the other thing that I find comical is that people are getting all over Matthew Kachuk for chirping Leon Drysidal saying he's always the bridesmaid. Like, what do you want him to say? Hey, buddy, great job out there. Really happy to be playing against you. It's the Kachucks.

That's what they do. This is the Olympics, whether you're winning or losing. your chirping guys. Like, let's get real here. Yeah, that's how they operate. I mean, I do think Brady, Brady's much more subdued. Noodles, you would know more than us, clearly. Brady

has to tone it down a little bit. Like, Matthew can say it, because he's got two cup rings. Brady's played six playoff games in his career. So Brady can't. Fair enough. It was awkward a little bit because Brady's laughing and he's like, I can't really chirp because that's dry. He knows it's his brother.

All he's doing is when little brother or I guess Big Brother is starting a fight, he's there to finish it because he's eight feet tall. That's what it is. Matthew's the one at the bar picking the fight, and then the brother comes in and stuffs people into garbage cans. That's the way I see it with Brady is that's how the two of them are wired. You're right.

Brady was in the background with a smile on his face. I didn't hear him. He didn't say a word. You can't say anything to Leon. No. Matthew, Matthew can say whatever. he wants literally any game anytime he can say whatever he wants he has earned that right and quite honestly like even if he hasn't who cares we always want more personality we want a little more

flavor to these things if a hot mic catches a guy chirping a little bit it's great it's great for business and you know what like i guess my worry with the hot mics and all like hearing these things is that like people aren't ready to like understand what actually gets said on the ice Dude, they don't understand, Frankie. Yeah, they don't understand it. Every guy that hated all the comments from Matthew Kuchuk, you look at his nerdy profile, and it's like, executive and it's furry.

They're just nerds. They don't know what the hell's going on. Yeah. It's a different world, man. It's not, like, let's say HR, HR would be called 45 times a game based on everything that gets said. That's fair. That's fair.

Frankie, I wanted to go back and, you know, get your take on, you know, the coaching in Europe and the Swedish coach, maybe, you know, benching or, you know, healthy scratching guys. And, you know, to me, I think there's, you know, something different. Maybe they're trying to outthink or outsmart everybody. What do you make of some of these European coaches and all of that? No, it's a good question, noodle. So I played almost two years in Europe before my career finished. My first year, I played for Motto, right, in Sweden, legendary program. I had three head coaches that year.

Three head coaches. You know why? Some of the stuff that goes on there is bananas. Like they're just, they can tell you we want to do this, but they can't tell you why they want to do it. And that's where in a tournament like this, you know, Canada and USA have such a significant advantage

as far as how players are being deployed, how they're managing ice time, what kind of line combinations you have. Like it's crazy stuff. Like the year I played, played in Sweden. We had three different coaches with three different like D zones, neutral zones, whatever you want to call it. It's like, how can there be this many different ways to play in one season? And then when I went to the KHL, it was just like, we do this because we do this. Well, why do we do it?

Just because we've decided that's what we're going to do. So, you know, some of the stuff that's going on in this tournament and, you know, Craig was talking about it. I heard you guys talking about it earlier. it's you know you have to know how to handle certain NHL players it's why we see sometimes coaches get a start in the NHL and they stubbed their toe because they've never had to handle the star guys

before this is all the star guys combined on one teams it's not you know you need to have experience with that and I think the some of the European teams they're showing that they don't have that kind of experience managing those types of players if I was the star players of a team like Sweden I would say for the next Olympic We're not stepping foot on that ice unless we get an NHL coach or somebody capable.

We're not having a bozo clown show out there in the Olympics, the biggest sporting event in the world. You don't get a quality coach from the NHL, we're not going. Or some kind of protest. Why is there no European coaches in the NHL right now, right? Like, there's plenty of them. Look, all these leagues, there's teams that are good every single year. Why is no one hired any of these guys? You know what?

It's just something about it. And something might change because if Team Sweden loses the Team USA, they'll have a hockey summit going, what the hell's going on here? To me, that's a team that probably should be in the medal rounds. And if they don't, if they end up losing, one of them's going home. I think they'll be hard looking at how the coaching was, how the preparation, all that type of stuff too, right? Well, and don't you find this interesting? So it feels like Team USA has picked their team and they've sat around the boardroom

and they've simulated games how to play Canada. Right? Like who's going on the ice when McDavid's out there? How are we killing a penalty when Canada's top unit? How are we doing things with the goalie pulled for or against? Like it feels like everything they've done is to prepare for Canada. Now they've got the Swedes.

What happens if you lose to Sweden and you don't even get a chance at Canada? like do you regret how you picked your team a little bit? Like that's what I would be worried about. That's what the summit would be for the Americans if they lose to Sweden. Well, again, it looks like Kyle Conner's on the outside looking in for Mike Sullivan. Again? Yeah, it looks like he's going to be the 13th, 14th, 4th, and may not even dress. 40 goals score. Sorry.

Well, they didn't have Caulfield. They didn't have Jason Robertson there. You know, you got to have J.T. Miller. Got to have Vinny Trocheck out there playing. Got to have these guys. and, you know, that's Bill Garen, but obviously Sullivan factors in. You know, just like we know Cooper had a really loud voice for this Canadian team. Sullivan clearly had a loud voice himself.

But Sullivan's, Hayes, he must have thought there's no way in hell after I embarrassed this guy once that'll ever have to do it again. And now he finds himself doing it again at the Olympics. That is crazy-ass stuff. We'll see what happens as of tomorrow, but based on lines today, it looks like Connor could be the odd man out. Well, I mean, you look at the Canadian side, they're going to get Chekia, and you mentioned McDavid and how well he's playing. The Crosby line's been really good.

You know, McKinnon has been good, but he's been banged up a little bit. That line hasn't been as good. You know, Suzuki is trying to find his way a little bit. Hagel's been okay. But if you look at McDavid and Sid, who do you think, because you're asking a lot, they're both playing at a level that is absolutely absurd, especially when you consider Sid's age, which one is more likely to have another gear, in your opinion, now that we're in to the elimination round, McDavid or Sid?

Well, I think McDavid hit his gear. Like, he hit it already. Like, does he have another one? If he's in sixth, does he have seventh to go to, that would be the question around McDavid. I think Sid has another one that we've actually seen before. Like, we've seen it on the cup runs. we've seen it with the golden goal. Like, Sid has a track record of saying,

I'm here. I'm in fifth. I can get to sixth. And so that would lead me down that road. But it will be interesting, you know, if and when they do get the Americans. Like how, yeah, you're going to match up McDavid as hard as he can. But, man, you want to go, if you want to really go hard matchup shutdown line on McDavid,

you're going to open up, you're going to open up a lot for Crosby. it feels like. So that would be, you know, that's the luxury that you have if your team Canada. I think it's crazy how McDavid has come into this tournament and said, everything that you thought I was, I'm actually a little bit more. And now here it is. So, I mean, they've both had another level in the past. I think Crosby has another one that he can go to for sure.

Yeah. I think what's scariest, they both might. Like, I think McDavid, as good as he's been, there's a chance he goes, all right. Last week was the tune-up. Now it's go time. And he's not going to play 25 minutes, although he might. In the gold medal game, they might just, Cooper might say, I've got to play him more. Open the door and push him out. Yes. But if it's 18, 19 minutes, it might be insane the way he plays those minutes.

But that's the crazy thing right now, Hayes, about the way McDavid is getting deployed is he doesn't have to play 25. So the 18 or 17 minutes that he is playing, it's just he's so fresh and he's so ready to go. He doesn't have to pace himself at any point in this game. It's as soon as he gets on the ice, it's full throttle, you roll your lines and he's back on and he's like raring to go

on the ice, which is different than what he does in Edmonton. I mean, he still puts together quality shifts clearly, but man, it's like every single time he's on the ice. Frankie, just one quick question before we get you out of here. Are you on your onus porch? It's not

my non-ness porch. It's It's my kids' Nunes' Porch. So, yeah, we're at and Nondas for dinner right now

and the kids are inside just causing a ruckus so that's why I'm outside doing the head. That makes sense. We can accept that. We can accept that. All right.

Well, say hello to everyone for us. I'm pretty sure. There's a guy, if you guys listen to first up, robbed from Woodbridge, I'm looking at his house right now.

Like, I'm literally, he's probably watching the show and he's like, I, know where this guy is right now, and I'm looking at Rob from Woodbridge's house. They had to Rob for us, please. And the whole crew.

We appreciate it. Thanks, buddy. Yeah. Okay, boys. We'll talk soon. There he is. Frankie Carrotto joining us here on the Maple Toyota hotline. It's time to Toyota in the 2025 Prius.

Go up to 72 kilometers on battery alone, then seamlessly switch to hybrid mode. Check it out of Maple Toyota right near Canada's Wonderland in the Maple Auto Mall. You know, you brought something up, Brian, about it here, Crosby's line. Like, that Mark Stowe's line. is a hell of a player. Like, I think he's a guy, underrated is the wrong word, because I think we all know what he's capable. Underappreciated.

Underappreciated is the word. Like, that line is pretty serious. I think, you know, you've got Marner there. Like, they all bring something a little bit different, right? My guy, Jermaine Man Franklin. Yeah. Like he said, he tweeted out the other day. He goes, I just have a new appreciation for this guy.

Like, he just intercepts so many parts. and he has just this skating style. If you ever watched him in a morning skate, you'd be like, what? But he just gets around and he gets it done. He gets it done, man. Yeah, he's so good. But it's not style point, so. No, I get it.

It's ugly. You used to watch him between the benches, how effective that guy is. Every night, like when I'd watch him, he stands on the bench a lot. It doesn't sit. He stands there because he's so into the play. He's got, you know, the end of his stick, the knob. that it's like five rolls of tape. It's this giant handle that he's got,

and he's got the ugly skating style, and takes the helmet off, the salads everywhere. Like, this guy just comes to play. Like, and he's a competitor. Like, he just, every play, he treats it like it's his last shift. Like, I love the way he plays. I really do. I've always been a Mark Stone fan.

You know, he's a champion, he's a captain. You know what he can bring. To me, he's a fantastic play. That's a great line, man. Marner's been great. Crosby's been great. It's a great line. It's your third line.

Stabilizers, the coach calls them. Yep, and that's exactly what it is. All right, confirm with deny coming up. Overdrive continues up on YouTube live. All right, best bets later in the hour. Get to confirm a deny here in a moment. Got some audio we want to play during Confirm and Deny. We're really spicing up the production, which I love.

Duggey's on his A-game, man. Yeah? Doogie's not in some Olympic break. Ever since he's. touchdown in San Francisco, he's gone to a new level. He really has. I disagree. I think he's found another level since he went to Arizona.

Yes. Since he went to waste management. Yeah. You're right. Dogey put on a clinic down there. I think he's a wanted man in the state of Arizona. He might be. That's my only concern is he's not allowed back in the state. But yeah, Dugie was living the high life, man. Dinners and breakfast without Roker and everyone down there. Like, Dugge was really living a lifestyle in San Francisco that was spectacular. Yeah.

Some disappointing performances where I spoke with him and he said he was in bed at 9 p.m. and Sam Fran. I know. A 22-year-old guy or however old he is. I said the same thing.

I'm like, do you? I love that you're professional. I love that we can rely on you. It's amazing. If I were you, I would have at least one night where I crawl into my hotel room at 7 a.m. Would you be fine?

At least one night. Of course. We would have. nights. Pat him on the back and said we love that. Exactly. We'll take it from here. Take the day off.

If Friday, if Friday morning, he's just M.I.A. And we've got to show and we're at 1 o'clock. Can't do it. You've got to be able to show up to work. No. No, no. But he crawls in at 9 a.m., but he shows up and his face is on sideways.

And you're like, this guy's had a time. I think we, you know, we're like, we're fine with it. Yes. He's young. 100%. 100%. We'd say, dogy. You're right.

You'd have to be there for the show. You got to get up. and get there. You got to get up and get to work. Yeah, but if like no guest came on, we can do a two-hour show and no guess. Who cares? Just stand over there like Bernie Lomax. We'll be fine. We'll be fine.

Put your glasses on in the convention center. We'll be fine. All right. Ready? Confirm and denial. Let's fire this up. I can neither confirm or deny that this is in fact a segment. Austin trades Andrew Raycroft to Toronto in exchange for the rights to Tuka Rass.

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We love it. It's the best. All right. Confirm and deny. The Maples, we're back on the ice today and resume play a week tomorrow. Confirm and deny the Maple Leaf's front office have already made up their trade deadline plans. They've already made up their minds on being buyers, sellers, standing pat. They've already determined what they're going to do. I'm going to deny it. I'm going to deny it.

I don't know. It's just one of those things where it's weird. It's like the Leafs are in all this trouble, but the Edmonton Oilers who have a worse winning percentage are like Cup contenders. Like it's just a weird vibe. Like it's just a weird scenario, man. How could that be possible that the Leafs are just like sell the farm and the Oilers are Stanley Cup contenders?

Because the Oilers have been to the finals last two years and just kind of... Jamie, I don't give a crap what they've done. the last two years. They're terrible this year. I'm just saying the Leafs have a 5% chance of making the playoffs. That's the difference. The Oilers play in the Pacific. That's the difference.

They're going to make the playoffs. They're making the playoffs, whether they just glide in or not. The Leafs have 5% or 7%. I think they've made it. You can compare all you want, but they've got to win 8 out of 10 and need help from other people. I think they've made up their mind, and it's not even selling off players. It's you've got decisions to make.

What are you doing with Bobby McMahon? You've got to sign them or you've got to trade them? Like, you can't let them walk. Like, that's my point, oh. Like, I don't think they're looking at Abington and going, well, we've got a better record than them. I know. It was just the point of reference that maybe my comment was just like a fading hope where I just can't believe they're writing off the season.

But it's probably the only move to make. It's probably the only play. I don't think they're writing it off. I think what they have to do is just realize where they are and they've got to make hard decisions on players. they could still make a run. Florida's hoping to make a run. Ottawa's hoping to make a run.

They're in the same boat of all of those guys because they're all got the same amount of points, same amount of games played or games left. There is somebody out of that group that could make a run, and the Leaves could be one of those. I'm not discounting that. What I'm saying is the plan still has to be made for Brad Tree Living's standpoint,

what am I doing with player X, player Y, because I've got business decisions to make regardless of where we are in the stand. Scott Lawton's another one. Bobby McMahon. What am I doing with, you know, player X, player Y? Are these guys available to me? So I think it's more, oh, not where they are in the standings, I understand, but it's more about where are you going.

Where is this team going and where are you taking it? And those decisions, I think, probably were made over the break here. I would, I want to confirm because if they haven't, like they have six games between now and the trade deadline. Right. If they think those six games are going to determine something. obviously they could say maybe we go six and oh and we're two points out at the deadline. I just think you've seen 50, what have you seen, 57 games of this team? You can't extend it.

It's usually 25 games. Yeah, you know who you are. Like they're not, even if they find a way to go on a heater, are they good enough to do what exactly? I don't know. I know the East isn't loaded. Like Tampa's very good. Carolina's always a good team. You know, is anyone else scare you?

Maybe not. Maybe you can convince yourself that you could get in and do some damage. But I want to confirm. I guess I will confirm. I fear that the right answer is denied because the ownership and Pally and everyone. And listen, Tree Living is, I don't know, is he on. Ben, he's shaky. I don't know how to define his spot, but he can't be 100% comfortable with where he is.

So, you know, what are they? They may be trying to sell it to themselves. We're still alive. I think that'd be the wrong play. It would scare me, but you've had two weeks here plus 57 games. If you don't know what you have now, what the hell are you doing? Like, what are you doing? Coming back to my point is there's teams that believe that they should be in that mix.

Toronto, I believe, you know, things that they're there. It's more important, do you think you're there next your noodles? Right? That's fair. You make your decisions, but I look at it. They've got so many things like what ifs. And oh, you brought it up, like what if this happens? They go on a heater.

Is TANF coming back? Is Dakota Joshua coming back? Is Morgan Riley healthy? All of that type of stuff. I don't know if a three-and-three record in their next six up to the deadline is going to change. To me, you have to have a plan. And I guarantee you, Keith Pelly has probably said to management, like, where are we going here? Obviously, you're trying to make the playoffs, but you can still make the playoffs trading one player from your roster or two players.

But you've got big decisions business-wise. to make on some players because you can't just let them walk for nothing or you either have to sign them and move forward or you have to move away from them and get some assets back and kind of, not retool, but move players forward. Austin Matthews, William Nealander, not going anywhere.

Those guys aren't going anywhere. But, yes, I think if they don't take advantage of this to recoup some assets, it would be a ridiculous decision personally. But I'm not convinced they will. We may come back in day one, Bobby McMahon's, signed five-year deal at 4.25 million per. I wouldn't be shocked if that happened. But yeah, it just, it sucks that they're in this division because you're right.

You're looking at it. Ottawa's right there. You know, Florida is two points behind you. Boston's six points up. Buffalo seven points up. You know, Detroit is 10. Those scenes are gone. Detroit's gone.

Tampa's going. Montreal likely. I think Montreal's probably gone. I think the top three are gone. You're talking about wild card spots. Right. And you're going to fight for that. And I do believe they can.

I honestly, regardless of the 5 or 8% or whatever, I do believe they can be right there. But they're going to need a lot of help. And they need to go on a run. All right. Let's move on here. Let's get to – why don't we play the Tiger clip here quickly? Because something to 2 on is also brought to you by Boston Pets. And we love that, Canada's favorite sports bar.

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at Riviera and was asked about his comeback tour, the rehab, and whether the masters, which is right around the corner, is off the table in terms of a return for him. Final thing with you in regards to your recovery, is the masters off the table

for you? No. Tiger. So we're doing it again with Tiger. And we've been asking, you know, if he were to return to the Masters, where would it rank for you in terms of the excitement level? Through the roof, lukewarm, or do you just not care anymore? I don't care anymore, unfortunately. Really?

Really? Yeah. Yeah, I don't care anymore because they're going to break. They're going to put him on the range and watch him hitting balls. And it's like he's barely going to make the cut or he's not going to compete. I mean, if the guy goes out and shoot. 65 on day one, it gets your attention, but I don't see that happening. Guys, we've been through this before.

I know. You can't, you can't show up at a golf tournament, because we know the program. He shows up and he says, I'm here to win. Then he gives a little sniff like that, and then he misses the cut, and he's like, well, I never play. But it's like it can't be both. You can't say at the beginning of the tournament, I only show up, and he's been saying this whole life to win, and then he misses the cut, and it's like, well, I'm rusty. never play. Can't be both.

So I can't go through the tiger comeback again. Plus it's the ass grab. Like you know something's going to like he starts playing and it doesn't go well and something. He hasn't finish it. Like to me I just think he's such a legend. He moves the needle.

People want to see it regardless. That's the truth. It's like there's only so many times. I know we've played this. We've been down this road many times. The reality is he's not winning. That's not happening. So it's Guys, let's not forget, like this guy is 50 years old. Like, in two or three years, he's going to be, like, young Jack and Arnie type guy

where he's just that famous guy wheeling around Augustin National. That's what he is. That's why I would be excited, because for years I've watched Sandy Lyle go out there and his balls and his sticky, ugly shoes on. Exactly. It's insane. So why not watch Tiger hit a couple of stingers and make a couple of big pots and get the roars going? There's only so many left.

So, you know, I'm not going in thinking he's going to win. It's all, I know he'll do it. Of course he'll do it. He'll get a full day of live from, you know, the Tuesday will be all him, you know, or the Wednesday will be all him. And Brando will say, well, you never know. Whatever. I don't know.

I mean, and I love the Masters. I love the whole week. It's the coolest event of the year if you're a golf fan. But Tiger, go ahead. Do what Fred Couples has been doing the last 20 years. He's not that'll win. Just make the cut. Yeah.

Go to tour around and make the cut. That'd be awesome. I'm all for it. I'd still love to see it. I don't think it's going to happen, too. Let me point that out. Him saying it's not off the table does not mean he's going to be there playing. I'd be shocked if he's playing it.

I totally disagree with you. Him making that comment means he's playing the Masters. When the guy says the master's off the table and he says, no, that means I'm playing Augusta National. Really? I think so? I could. It's scream statement. week of. I did everything I could.

I'm just not quite ready. You know, see you soon. He's been hiding in the weeds, man. It's just like it's a couple weeks away from I'm playing on the Masters. Okay. You think so. All right. Wow. I love it. I hope you're right.

I hope you're right. I want to see him and I would be excited to see him. All right. Continue and confirm with deny. There's a lot of chatter about the PGA tour and what could happen with their schedule moving forward. Confirm or deny the PGA tour should start their season after the Super Bowl.

Well, the golf watching fan in me doesn't want that because there's a month and a half of golf that I like watching. Hawaii, which is basically punted, it's gone from our life. They're not going back there. I know. But they were talking about, I heard it, I was reading it something today where it's like RIV and Pebble might be like in the summer next year, where it's like you're taking that away from me in the wintertime as well.

But if they want to go ahead and do something different, they can start it after the Super Bowl Hays. And that's great for the viewership numbers. But what about the golf that was – are they just going to say golf's not being on TV? Like, how is that going to work with the networks and all the sponsors and stuff? I don't know.

Like, it does seem like there's a big shift coming that they're going to play much fewer tournaments. It's going to be spread out. There's not going to be a ton of back-to-backs. And they're going to pick 24 huge events or whatever. and they're going to try to own the spring and summer. They have to own the summer. They know that.

Then you're only competing with baseball. You know, football's gone. College football's gone. Basketball's out of the way. Hockey's out of the way. You know, they got to own that. But I saw the same thing that Pebble and Riv would move to the summer and be a part of the playoffs, which would suck in February,

but would be amazing in August. Like, playing Riviera in a big playoff event would be incredible. But how would the players view it, too? Like, the players are like, you know what? we don't love playing that much golf, but we don't hate it that much either. Like, I'm sure Scotty Sheffler loves to go to a tournament and pick it off at the MX and throw $3 million in his pants. They don't hate it that much.

They just want to show up somewhere and play golf for four days and try to win $3 million. So they've got to be saying, well, now we're opportunities to win, although in the shorter season there's going to be big money tournaments. But the volume of them, like, There's a lot of questions that have to be answered. Yeah. I don't see a scenario where you can go mid-February to the end of August, and that's it. Like, golf just isn't big enough for that.

Like, I'm going to deny this because I'm sorry, the NFL shouldn't even be in your orbit. Like, you don't compete with the NFL. You don't compete against. Like, NFL's got its own day. It's a different. They're a country. They're a country, literally. Exactly.

And if you want to switch it up during big NFL runs, like in January and August, finish your tournaments, go Wednesday to Saturday. Don't even play on this Sunday So you're not competing against the street What's happening to the other golfers? Like not everyone Scotty Schaeffler or Moracow Or Jordan Speeth like where Where are the other guys going to play golf?

Well, you got to find a way to You got to get hot quick, man. Talk to Chris Goderop about that. Now he's in the crowd. You got to win like a tournament or too quick And then all of a sudden your name and then you're included. You know what I mean? Because you're right.

Like if, I don't know, Ben Griffin came out of nowhere. Now he's in, now he's part of the crowd. Yeah, okay, well, Keith Mitchell's a good player, but he's not really at that level. Where's he going to golf if he's not in. I don't know where he goes to play golf. So he's one of the world's best player. Yeah, there's Canadians on that front as well. Like, we love McKenzie Hughes.

You know, he's not at that level. Where is he golfing? I don't know. Adam Hadwin's already on the corn fair. Corn Ferry. So I hear you. And I am curious, like, where does the Canadian Open coming to plan all this? I don't know.

I don't know which tournaments are chosen. Dude, they're talking about completely punting on that fall season. I love watching that in the fall. Yeah. Those last four or five events? Me too, because you're still playing golf. Yeah, and it's like I like to watch these guys kind of hang on and try to get in or get their card. Totally.

And this guy that took over was like that, yeah, it's gone. I know. It's going to be very different. All right. Let's play this Aaron Judge Audio before we get to our final confirmed than I. So Judge down in Tampa, Yankees of all of Ron. He stepped up to the podium and was asked about the Yankees offseason. Here's what he had to say.

Early on, it was pretty tough to watch. I'm like, man, we're the New York Yankees. You know, let's go out there and get the right people, get the right pieces to go out there and finish this thing off because we got a special group of players here. We got a good core, good young core. So it was frustrating, but I think we're right where we need to be. Yeah, he throws in that last point. He doesn't believe it for a second.

What I find fascinating about this is, like, Judge, like this is the New York Yankees, and their brand is being challenged because the Mets are spending more, the Dodgers are laughing them, and the Blue Jays have passed them. The Blue Jays spend more or as much, they're active, they make changes, they beat the doors off them in the ALDS, beat them for the division, beat them for top spot in the American League, and Judge is sitting there as an all-time great player, and one of the great Yankees ever,

and he has like Cody Bellinger. Exactly. They brought Belanger back. They're like, why don't we go get somebody? Tucker's out there, Bregman's out there, there. There's other guys out there. There's arms out there. You know, like they still have a very good team. The Yankees are always going to be in the mix. And they do spend money.

But that's a fascinating comment to say that. Like early on in the off season, it's like, what are we doing? We're the Yankees? Well, don't kid yourself. I love to see the pendulum swing because there was years where it's like, now that guy's going to end up with the Yankees and the Js have no shot. And that's not the case anymore Because they were literally the only one

A-Rod's available We're going to give him $250 million We're going to give Jeter 250 million We're going to get Jason Giambi We're going to get this guy, that guy And they signed everybody, man So it's nice to see them chewing on it a little bit But he's probably saying

Now where is, like This is your top player This is the face of your franchise They're probably going to have to have a conversation with him Or he's probably had, or his agent Saying like, what did you guys do here? What are we doing? I want to get cooking, man.

And that's why I'll throw it out there, confirm it tonight. Aaron Judge will finish his career as a Yankee. 100%, man. That guy's not going anywhere. He's like an iconic baseball figure, 99, 6-foot-6, hits bombs. Like, he ain't going anywhere. Unless he demands out, Hayes. Well, that's what I'm getting to.

You think those comments are a prelude to him saying, get me out of it. I think it's the story. I'm not saying it's this year or even next. I think that's a message, though, being like, listen, we talk about it. about it with McDavid all the time. You don't think he's sitting there saying, I got to get a ring here. Like, I can't throw my name into the hat with Ruth and DiMaggio and Mantle and Jeter. If I don't win, I got to win something here. You know, and he's been to a World Series. Now, he didn't perform that well in the past.

He hit very well in the D.S. You know, like he put up numbers against the Blue Jays. But they got, they got pumped, pumped. And he didn't have any help. You know, their staff wasn't good enough. The Jays just destroyed them, man. And the Jays destroyed them in the offseason again. even though they lost Bichette. They made more moves that I think are going to have an impact on this season than what the Yankees did. So I do think this is at least opening the door. I would confirm it as of today he retires a Yankee.

But if he's two or three years away from here and they're not good enough or they're not winning, when does he say, I got to get out of here and Ray Bork this thing? Like when does he say, I got to get one? I don't know. It doesn't really live. Baseball doesn't really live in that world. And it's amazing we're having this chat with the Yankees because you, Usually if you're a great player and you're there for 15 years, you win.

Like, that's just the way it goes. Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but he's got a bit of an Austin Matthews vibe with the Yankees. He's not exactly like dialed in and come playoff. What's shocking about the Yankees is how they got pumped, and then everyone's offseason was being kind of pumped up, and then the Yankees just sat back. Like, they got pumped by the Blue Jays, with the exception for what, one game? Yeah, yes.

They, exactly. They won game three. And they got destroyed. the J's. Yes. Like destroyed. They hit them all over the place. Yes.

Yeah. Yes. Destroyed. Ugly scores. And they got destroyed during the regular season. Like the J's, the Jays win percentage against the Yankees was. Yeah,

four games series. They had a bunch of sweeps against them. Like they, their record against the Yankees was like $750, 800 on the season. It was crazy. So, and they keep bringing Boone back.

They have the same GM. They've had for like 25 years. I don't know. The door might have been open a little bit with those type of comments from Aaron Judge. There you go. Yeah. Confirm it and I brought to you by our friends at Boston Pizza. All right.

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How sad were you when you just dug around on that schedule and where it's like, what am I going to pick? I was going to play a game. What were these two teams? Can't you do Olympic games? No, not with this particular setup. Okay. But there was one, what was it, like Southern Charleston?

against like the web I don't know man I was leaning into that it was a big spread I just couldn't get a lean on it one way or the other dude there's there's I mean Hayes you've heard of these dudes they'll bet on like European basketball all day handball man

handball is a big thing around the world and no with no knowledge though how are you doing that you're letting it ride you just got a research you just got a research you're letting it ride I guess you got to try to find out whatever you can find out.

But, you know, spreads and books. There's bookmakers that know what they're doing. So generally the lines are pretty clean, you know. This Al's brothers disappeared too, right? He's probably back on a cruise after the feet. Unfortunate. Yeah, it's very unfortunate. Man, Al's brother, he's just, he's gone dark on us.

I haven't heard a word from him since the Super Bowl. It was heartbreaking for him. You know what he's dealing with wedding details. Yes, I think the wedding preparation is officially on. Are we in? Have we ever determined? I don't know. I would say many juries, it's like a 25%.

No. We're invited? Yes. No, we're invited. I'm talking us performing a ceremony. I don't know if we're invited, dude. I think you're being very presumptuous with that. I don't know.

He said his dad and his father-in-law are big fans of the show. Okay. If those guys are foot in the bill. Well, they're footing the bill. A lot of times, isn't it? The parents pay or they? Well, they can chip in for sure. Definitely a chip-in.

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