The Sheet with Jeff Marek - Canes Dominate Game 4 and Remembering Claude Lemieux ft. Renaud Lavoie & Greg Wyshynski

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

Jeff Marek and Greg Wyshynski are back for another edition of MvsW on The Sheet as they break down the Carolina Hurricanes’ dominant 4-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final to take a commanding 3-1 series lead. The guys dive into what went wrong for the Canadiens on home ice, how the Hurricanes completely controlled the pace of play, and whether Montreal has any path back into the series heading into Game 5. During the live show, breaking news surfaced that legendary NHL forward Claude Lemieux had passed away, shifting the conversation as TVA Sports’ Renaud Lavoie joined the show to reflect on Lemieux’s life, career, and impact on the game of hockey. Renaud shared stories about Lemieux’s legacy in Montreal and across the NHL, his playoff performances, the emotion surrounding the news in Quebec, and what made him one of the most memorable players of his era. Jeff and Greg also discussed Carolina’s depth, Frederik Andersen’s shutout performance, and the latest developments from the Stanley Cup Playoffs in another emotional and memorable edition of The Sheet.#TheSheet #JeffMarek #GregWyshynski #MvsW #ClaudeLemieux #CarolinaHurricanes #MontrealCanadiens #NHLPlayoffs #StanleyCupPlayoffs #FrederikAndersen #RenaudLavoie #HockeySHOUTOUT TO OUR SPONSORS!!👍🏼 Fan Duel: https://www.fanduel.com/👍🏼 Ninja: https://www.sharkninja.ca/ninja-crispi-pro-6-in-1-countertop-glass-air-fryer-rose-quartz/AS101CRS.html?utm_source=Meta&utm_medium=Paid+Social&utm_campaign=H1NinjaCrispi&utm_content=NinjaEN&dwvar_AS101CRS_color=cdb9b8Reach out to [e-mail] to connect with our Sales Team and discuss opportunities to partner with us!If you liked this, check out:🚨 OTT - Coming in Hot Sens | https://www.youtube.com/c/thewallyandmethotshow🚨 TOR - LeafsNation | https://www.youtube.com/@theleafsnation401🚨 EDM - OilersNation | https://www.youtube.com/@Oilersnationdotcom🚨 VAN - CanucksArmy | https://www.youtube.com/@Canucks_Army🚨 CGY - FlamesNation | https://www.youtube.com/@FNBarnBurner🚨 Daily Faceoff Fantasy & Betting | www.youtube.com/@DFOFantasyandBetting____________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with us on ⬇️Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/daily_faceoff💻 Website: https://www.dailyfaceoff.com🐦 Follow on twitter: https://x.com/DailyFaceoff💻 Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailyfaceoffDaily Faceoff Merch:https://nationgear.ca/collections/daily-faceoffReach out to [e-mail] to connect with our Sales Team and discuss opportunities to partner with us! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Taking the L out of Loverboy. Trying to find a clever way to say that it's over for the Montreal Canadiens against the Carolina Hurricanes. And as we came up to the start of the show, that was the only thing I could come up with. Take the L out of Loverboy. Montreal down 3 to 1. You like it?

It's okay. A little Mike Reno action, little bandana in 1980s. Okay, we're working for the weekend. We're good. Okay. Welcome to the sheet. Yeah. You know your audience.

Oh, I do. Oh, I do. And they know me. And there's a collective groan from the other side of this microphone. Half the audience to shut off their Best of Corey Hart CD to turn on the sheet. Sunglasses at night, baby. Yes, they'll crank that out. Thursday, May 28th.

There is the stamp for the show today. That is the date just after 1 o'clock Eastern as we do this show live, if you're listening on podcast version. Just a tough one from Montreal yesterday and another command performance yesterday by the Carolina Hurricanes. And at a certain point, maybe we just do it right off the top. Should we talk about Keandre Miller and the Kahn Smyth Trophy? The Kahn Smyth Trophy?

Listen, he's going to have to get in line behind. He's been incredible, but I mean, you've got your Taylor Halls, you've got your Logan Stankovins, you've got your Freddie Anderson, who's probably the leader for them right now. I get it.

This team has only lost one game in the playoffs, Jeff Merrick, and it's because they forgot how to hockey for a period after having the longest layoff between rounds in 107 years. Too excited. This is the reality of how good that Carolina Hurricanes have been. And at some point, maybe they get acknowledgement of that because I know heading into the series, there's a lot of people being like,

oh, they swept Ottawa, big effing deal. Oh, I swept Philly, big effing deal. Now they're sweep in Montreal, and I know that's probably similar to big F& deal because it's not Colorado, right? But they're a pretty good hockey team. And what the hurricanes are doing to this hockey team through the last two games at Bell Center is devastating.

To have as many shots on goal in game four as the Canadians have had in their last three games combined, Jeff Merrick? No, I know. Devastating. The numbers are just spectacular. Like the gameplay is the gameplay, but like 4418 shots on goal. First of all, was really nice to see Yaroslav Halak and the Dobish stop sign with the OG Halak. Like, I'm just like, oh, it's 2010 all over again.

again and where is Josh George's blocking shots and Mike Camillerie snapping it in and Kirk Muller drawing it up on the bench and it's like oh and online drama between Kerry Price and Yaroslav Halak agent fighting but it was it was cool to see Halak out there um I remember just as an aside I remember being in the Montreal dressing room that year and I can't remember who came by we were looking at his pads he was showing me something on his pads and they were of course, it's 2010, so they were huge. And one of the Canadian players, I can't remember who it was,

came by and made some crack about like, oh yeah, look at the size of this thing. Like, yeah, okay, I actually tried to stop a shot and sort of just like letting pucks hit you or something like that. And he spun around so fast and made a crack about composite sticks. Something like, oh, is that really your shot?

Or is that the stick? You ate it by the stick at all? Like, we'll talk about the sticks and then we'll talk about my pads. I wish I remember who the player was. But anyway, it was great seniorist laugh a lot last night. with the torch. And then Jakub Dobush just went out there

and single-handedly tried to keep like a flicker of a flame alive for the Montreal Canadians. Like when this series is all done, we'll have a look back and front and center is going to be Jakub Dobish, even in a inevitably losing cause here for Montreal. Yeah, I mean, what do you fault?

What do you fault them on in that first period? I mean, like, Aho's got to moving right to left on the power play, then the, you know, stall is allowed to kind of camp in front and tip home the Keandre Miller pass, and then it's a two-on-one for that third goal. None of them were Dobish's fault,

and he's done everything he can to keep his team in the series. But at the end of the day, I mentioned the epic break between the second round and the third round, and much like we could blame it for what happened in game one, we can also look at it and say, this is kind of why we're seeing what we're seeing in games three and four. If you look at

the third period and over, In the last two games, Jeff Merrick, the Carolina Hurricanes have a 70 to 26 shot attempt advantage. Hang on, hang on a second. Hang on a second. I'm new to hockey. Can you say that slower and explain why it's important? Because that sounds pretty big. Well, it's as if they have the puck and then they are able to attempt shots with the puck.

Whilst Montreal does not have the puck. and therefore cannot attempt shots with the puck or when they do have the puck they simply can't find ways to attempt shots. Now, here's the thing. It's a bit of a domino effect. You must attempt a shot to then get a shot that may or may not travel on goal

in the third period and overtime of the last two games. The Carolina Hurricanes have a 32 to 5 shots on goal advantage. So again, they've got plenty of fuel in the tent. because of the way that they went through the first two rounds. Montreal, seven game series. We watched game one. We're like, this doesn't matter. This rest shit.

And now by the end of game four, you're like, well, you know, maybe, maybe Montreal should or maybe close that one of those series before game seven. Just saying. Just saying. Okay, let's get to the rundown here. Let's get to the blueprint. What's on the program today. The blueprint is always brought to you by Fandul.

Download the app today and play your game on Fandul. Greg Wyshinsky is here from ESPN and ESPN.com. Check out some of his finer work there. Renaulte Lavoie from TVA. We'll stop by more on the Montreal Canadiens on and off the ice. Kane State Game 4, commanding 3 to 1 series lead, and the Montreal Canadiens offense is still a pop gun. Is there a path back to this one?

It would mean another seven game series for the Montreal Canadiens, if so. We're going to spend like the majority of the show. talking about the Montreal Canadiens last night and the Carolina hurricanes and sort of bounce back and forth between the two. If we have time, there's a couple of other things and I want to direct everybody to,

and I'm a sucker for these all the time, and we shouldn't do it off the top of the show, but we'll put it a little bit later on, give people a chance to actually read it too. Jason Greger has published a piece at OilersNation.com. Six changes I would make if I were NHL commissioner.

I will read this piece. I will read one of these a day. I could have a steady diet of if I ran the zoo pieces. So I know we're going to do it later. Give me one now. Give me the one that perked up your ears now. Because I wanted to read the piece.

I completely forgot about it. I saw it on socials last night. It's one that really got you. A couple of things. Nothing really grabbed me because I've talked about a lot of these before. I think we all have too. It's always interesting to see them all together.

Back-to-back games against the same opponent. Hell yeah. Hang on. I keep going back and forth on that one. Once upon a time, I was like, oh, hell, yeah, we got to do this. And then something in the back of my head kind of went, this may not be the bonanza you think it is.

But we'll get there when we get to Gregor's piece a little bit later on. There's some, like, just a spoiler, and we'll get to these later. Limiting contract lengths, back-to-back games against the same opponent, an offside review done in real time with no slow motion. Big fines for embellishment and the over and back rule. And pool reporters for officials. So those are the six for Jason Greger. And we'll come back to that one later on in the broadcast.

In the meantime, I know you didn't like the Kandre Miller for Kahn Smyth talk, but we always talk about how playoffs produce new players and superstars and jump off the pages of your score sheets and into your living rooms and into podcasts like this. For those of you that said that Kayandre Miller was never going to actualize as an elite-level defenseman in the NHL, certainly some Rangers fans may have thought that. I'm here to report you're wrong. He's been flat out incredible. All playoff long and it's about time.

He probably got some headlines. Thoughts on Kaye Andre Miller? I think this is a very instructive lesson you're about to talk about here because I've been talking about this for the last week or so after publishing that Mitch Marner piece on ESPN that I did. You remember when Tyler Sagan was traded from the Bruins? Yeah. Of course, yeah. They didn't.

The Louis Erickson trade. Wasn't a Bruin culture thingy, not one of ours money ball old scouts. Oh, we got Craig Frozen. Hang on. You froze a second there. Just back up like five seconds. Security guard outside the hotel door. in the playoffs too.

No. Let's not forget about that one. That was also part of the thing. But like when he was traded and he blew up in Dallas, one of the things that we talked about was, could this have ever happened in Boston for him? And the majority of us were like, no. He needed a change in scenery.

He needed to be in a different place, to not be in Boston, to be in a place that maybe was less pressure-filled, had a different culture, and that allowed him to just be himself and play hockey and amass points. I truly believe Mitch Marner would have never become a consmithe candidate, let alone leader in Toronto. Like, it just was never going to happen.

You got to get to the final to be a con smite candidate. Well, you also got to be in a room where there's a bunch of other guys with rings who will easily shoulder the load for you if you don't perform. And also, by the way, a franchise that has been to the conference final five times in nine years instead of one that is looking for their first cup since, you know, we were. going to launch to the moon. So like, you know, like, quick, quick pause on say again there, because to me, the instructive lesson about Talas Seagan, and we've seen this countless times, because you can make probably the same argument about Brad Marchand with the Boston Bruins at that time, because Marciaan, I assure you, after winning the Stanley Cup was an absolute puddle all

of the way. And he was a young hockey player, too, and they let him mature through the years with his team. One of the things, and this is, by the way, this is changing where you see now more, younger general managers, more understanding general managers, I've always felt that NHL teams really don't know and understand how to handle young players. I would agree. Especially older general managers have no idea. And that's why they looked at Sagan and said,

not on this team, no way, as opposed to. We got a 19-year-old kid who's a 19-year-old kid, and we're going to let him mature through our organization. And it's going to be bumpy along the way. But we need to be mature enough to understand. We can't expect him to behave like a 10-year-old pro. Anyway, that's my say again rant

So, so Marner goes someplace he finds himself Sagan goes someplace he finds himself Kianjee Miller goes someplace and finds his level And I know there's a lot of people dunking on Ranger fans That talk shit about his contract That he signed with Carolina after the trade And our old our mutual friend Johnny Lazarus I think has been like responding to tweets from a year ago

About how Keandre Miller didn't deserve the money or he was a bust and obviously there's a certain amount of like ha ha come up and it's about that but i mean i would i would offer that he's not going to be this guy in new york you know he's this guy in carolina one because the environment is different i talked to him i talked to miller about this when i saw him down in carolina uh earlier in the series just about the differences in the room and the differences in pressure and the differences in in environment and the differences in and having a billion guys with cameras and microphones in front of you versus having like three.

But then on top of that, I mean, how many, Merrick, how many a defenseman have we seen go to Carolina and thrive in that system? We're seeing it with Walker now, by the way, who I don't think has gotten enough, enough prague. Walker's been incredible for them. And I think that he's found another level there. I think you could argue that Gossus Bear has found another level there. Gossus Bear blocked a shot last night that sprung them.

For the two-on-one the other way. Shane Gostis bear! I know. But here's the thing. There's something to be said about the environment bringing out the best in Conjury Miller. Go look at the list of defensemen. Go look at the list of defensemen that Carolina has let walk away. Okay, even just last year with like Burns, Orloff before that Pesci and Shea, like, go right down this like incredible Dougie Hamilton.

This enormous list. Normally when you see a team and you look at it. like, holy smoke, look at all these defensemen that have... Their defense must be awful now. Right? They do such a good...

Okay, so here's the thing about Carolina. One, you have to be athletic. Two, you have to be able to think. And like, that's it. If you can't do those two things, you cannot play on the Carolina Hurricanes. So, like, when they go out to identify players, those are the players that you look for.

To your point about, Kandre Miller, this is a perfect environment because that's him. He's an incredible athlete. He can think quickly. He can react fast. He's not going to cross-check you into hell in front of the net. But nobody is on the Carolina Hurricanes back end. That's not how they play.

But if you can do these things, the Carolina Hurricanes will find you. And you can look out or go scour the map right now of players. And the one that I keep coming back to, I look at and I say, man, this guy's a Carolina hurricane if he's healthy all day long, is William Carlson. When you look at William Carlson play, how do you not say like this guy plays like he's on the Carolina hurricanes? And these players exist in the NHL. And what I like about Carolina is some general managers wouldn't let a Brett Pesci go because like, oh, I can't let this guy go. Like, I didn't have to go and try to find another one. And like there's a nervous default setting, which is if we let him go, where are we going to find another?

where Eric Tulski is of the mind that he likes the challenge of going to try to find another Brett Pesci. Okay, hard pivot. Yeah. Sad to share the news of you right now that Claude Lemieux has passed away at the age of 60. I know we all just saw Claude Lemieux on Saturday. Torchbearer for the Montreal Canadiens before a game three. Just announced a moment ago by the NHL alumni. I'll read it to the NHL Alumni Association is devastated to share that Clod Lemieux has passed at the age of 60.

We all know about him as a player, four times Stanley Cup champion. The first time I saw Claude Lemieux play, and you would have watched him a ton as a New Jersey Devils fan, watching a couple of Stanley Cubs for your team, would have been on CBC Sports, 1985 on the World Junior team. And I know that he kept in touch with a lot of guys from that team as well, what I would imagine would be absolutely devastated to say nothing of the number of clients that Claude Lemieux has in the NHL, which does include Carolina Hurricanes netminder, Freddie Anderson, Rasmus Anderson.

defenseman for the for the Vegas Golden Knights. Joel Erickson, go go right down the line. He's a very accomplished agent and one that is highly respected as well. You know, Greg, we had Sergio Mameso on the program a couple of days ago, and we talked about Claude Lemieux because him and Claude were drafted back to back in 1983

in the second round. I want to see like 26th and 27th, something like that, drafted by the Montreal Canadians. And he talked about how, Clode looked so happy and his family was there and he was in a good mood and smiling and happy and I kind of look back on it now and wonder if Sergio Mesao was saying like he was it was good to see him that happy perhaps intimating that at certain points he he hadn't been happy. I want to go over some of the highlights of Clod Lemus career and draw out some

thoughts about Claude Lemieux, but he was, I believe, and maybe was your favorite, or at least one of your favorite hockey players growing up as a Devils fan. He was. He was the first name on the back of a jersey I ever got as a kid. And the reason why, I actually got it before 95 when he led the playoffs and goals and won the Khan-Smith and the Devil's first Stanley Cup win. because I was a kid, so I'm learning hockey. I don't really know how it all works.

And I see this guy who has the indelible knack to get under the skin of opposing players, in particular opposing players that are star players. And I learned about shadowing. You know, I wasn't an Oilers fan. I didn't know who Esotikin was. So I learned about shadowing with Clode. I learned about the little dirty tricks that he played. pulled to get under player's skin.

But what I learned most about him as a young fan was he was special because it wasn't simply just his ability to goad players into penalties or to, you know, make players mental because of the way that he was playing. He would then score on you too. Yeah. Like the idea that he could do the things he did and then, like get the GWG to give the devils the win is is something that I've found to be like immediately attractive. Like it's not just that he's a he's a he's a he's a he's a successful troll.

And I'll never forget like like I remember when the devils beat the Flyers in their March of the Cup. And and he scored the game winning goal. The series clinching goal I think it was. And like nothing could be. could make anyone angrier than to see this guy who has pissed you off supremely for six or seven games, then scored the game winning goal. What we talk about today about Marchand and Kachuk and players like that is what he was. Yeah. But it goes to say that, you know, he also would go over the line sometimes.

I think he had over 1,700 penalty minutes in his career. And obviously, the discussion about the four Stanley Cup wins, the discussion about the Khan-Smith, the discussion about his incredible playoff numbers, are counterbalanced by the avalanche Red Wings rivalry, the hit on Chris Draper, a concussion, reconstructive surgery, and then a year later, or the next season, rather,

one of the most impactful line brawls in the history of hockey that then became an ESPN documentary and he was the match that lit that views. A lot of guys will say they'll do anything to win. And sometimes you look at it and go like, okay, what you mean is you'll do anything to win as long as it's on your terms. But when Claude de Mu said, I'll do anything to win,

he meant I'll do anything to win. and we saw that game in and game out and I know that for a lot of a lot of fans he drove them crazy trust me sometimes he would drive his own team crazy he would drive Pat Burns crazy yeah yeah there was it was it with

I think we're gonna have him on next week too I think there was an incident with Bill McCreary where he got into an incredible screaming match with McCrory to the point where Pat Burns actually sat him down for a game like okay there's there's a line with there's a line with officials. But like that was like that kind of intensity. And he is the class,

and you still hear it as a, like one of the true marks of becoming, um, not just an elite level player, but one that carries a reputation with them is you become a type. Like when you look at a kind of player, and Mark Bergevin would always say things like, there are players that get you there and players that get you through.

When he says players that get you through, he was talking about players like Claude Lemieux. guys that would be quiet during the regular season by way of production because you can't, knowing that you can't play in the regular season the way you played in the playoffs because you can't do that 82 times. But then when the playoffs start and the stakes are at its highest, beast mode. Complete beast. Completely to the point where when you see it now, like how many times they've even said like, and if you're watching us on YouTube, here's Claude from Saturday. carrying the torch, you know, cheering, a smile on his face, 20, 21,000 at the Bell Center.

There's, you know, someone that helped bring them the Stanley Cup in 1986. How many times have you seen, like, or said people have said, like, you know, Josh Anderson has like a Claude Lemieux quality about him because, you know, regular season, it might not be major points, but then the playoffs starting, all of a sudden Josh Anderson becomes. so important and he becomes kind of like Claude Lemieux. There's a physicality married with skill and intensity there that few before him and after or after him have had.

0.68 career points per game in the postseason in 234 games. Again, like he won the consmite in 95 for the doubles at this bitter split with Lou Lamarillo over money. That was another education for a young Greg Wischinsky. Not everybody gets paid just because they win the cons mime. They traded him in a three-way that actually sent him to Colorado, sent Wendell Clark, I believe, to the Islanders and Steve Thomas to the devil. So is, I think, how that whole thing shook out. But, yeah, I, you know, just, he's an interesting guy to talk about because, and I've had to deal with this in my life talking about him in admirable ways.

because he was divisive as all hell. Like he, you know, ask a Red Wings fan how they feel about Cloud the Mew. Yep. Or a Boston fan or anybody that, you know, had to deal with him. Because part of his schick was,

and he did, he did this in that memorable brawl when McCarty went after him, was he would turtle. He did not follow the code, as it were, Merrick. He would frequently do something. nothing nefarious and then not necessarily answer for the crime and that really pissed people off. So I acknowledge the fact that Claudele of you may not be, have been everybody's, you know,

brand of vodka here. But, uh, but, but for me as a kid, like he was, he was a formative player. The other thing about him too, and you can kind of see it in that, that video we just showed, Merrick. I mean, for the role that he played, he had like these sort of reptilian eyes. Like, you know what I mean? They were like really kind of thin and they were like they were kind of like a little scary. He had the look about him too that was sort of just that that fit the role.

If you were a Montreal Canadiens fan or New Jersey Devils fan or Colorado Avalanche fan briefly San Jose, you absolutely loved him. And one of my one of my favorite stories to tell. Actually, I might have just mentioned this with Mimesso the other day. Zach, let me know if I'm misremembering this. I think I mentioned this incident. So Red Fisher of the Montreal Gazette, like Red had at times more power than the general manager of the Montreal Canadians. And there was a trade that was going down between Toronto and Montreal. Remember, Bill Waters told me this one, who would have been the assistant GM at the time.

And it was Claude Lemieux and Shane Corson for Wendell Clark and G. Gary Lehman. And Red Fisher caught wind of it. And he was like, there's no way you're letting Lemieux go called Savard. I think so when it was Sirsavar was the GM and said, if you make this trade, I will run you out of town. Savard never made the trade. Like that's how powerful and everybody knew. Like you like guys like that, I understand that as a Wings fan, Lemieux was frustrating.

I get it. But everybody understood. Like when he was, he was on your team. Like that's it. And he might have been the first guy because there were players that did this role before. Ken Lindsman, Dennis Palanich, Tickenin, there's another great example.

Like it has happened before. But I think he might have been the first guy where I heard the cliche, you hate playing against him, but you love him on your team. And just as an adult, one of the things, and we talk a lot with agents in this capacity.

I always really enjoy talking to Claude. I remember when I was doing the old 32 pod with, with Elliot. and he knew that I was a big fan of Peter Forsberg. And he actually brought Forresberg on this pod that we were doing with Lemieux. Wow. Because he was like, I know you're a huge fan. You've always wanted to meet Peter Forsberg.

Well, here you go. You get to. And it was like, I can't even remember what I said to Forrestberg. But I was just like, Clow, thank you, man. Like, that meant the world to me that I was able to talk. I was such a little geek that I was able to talk to him. So like just a really nice man. And like our heart breaks for his family.

our heartbreaks for his friends. And Montreal Canadians fans and New Jersey Devils fans and Avalanche fans and just fans of anyone who's ever said, you know, you hate playing against them,

but you love them on your team. Because that was, and a really successful agent as well. And I think he brought, I think he as well, I don't know if he was still had an ownership stake, but he had bought Graff hockey.

Remember the skates, the T-blades that all the German players wore? He bought that company. I know they had a deal with NHL officials for a long time, but nonetheless, a good businessman, excellent agent, and just tremendous, tremendous hockey player. When I take my kids to Devils games, I am off the clock.

So I wear a jersey because I am, of course, a Devils fan. There's no changing that. I could try to be all adult and journalists are you about it, but group of Devils game, what am I going to do? Turn it off. One jersey I wear is the Christmas tree, Scott, Stephen. jersey that was the throwback that came out a while ago it's a great looking jersey love wearing it the other one's the claude lemieux jersey and we we've talked about before you and i about like

getting names on backs of jerseys obviously on park daddy we used to do jersey fouls and stuff like that but i love that you know when you wear a jersey like that like a claude lemu jersey in in 2026 you got people coming up to you and being like that's dope love them the most important player for me as a kid. And then you get people like my daughter who, you know, can tell me when the devils won the cups, but couldn't tell me a single player on the team except for Claude Lemieux because she saw me wear the jersey, saw the number, 22, saw the name on the back, had to tell her it wasn't Mario, and then told the tales of Claude Lemieux on the devils. And that always struck me. It's like, that's why you get the name on the back. Sometimes it's

to honor the guy on the team, but other times it's just because you, that player meant that much that much to you and then you can then you know spin those tails for others when they when they see you wearing that name and number on the back yeah well it's um it could have been mario if you hadn't done what should i was just thinking about that that it should have been maryo stupid penguins tanking oh you're so good at tanking you're so good at tanking you're winning lotteries that's all the penguins do eddie johnson sent all the goldpenders down to the miners and brought up all the minor league goalies, and you guys kept winning hockey games.

We love, you know what, it's just like my friends in Buffalo. They wanted either McDavid or Eichel. We wanted either Mario Lemieux or Kirk Muller, obviously. Let's bring Reno Levois from Tevi on the program. We were going to talk, you know, the majority of this conversation about the Montreal Canaanes and the Carolina hurricanes.

But first of all, Reno was a sad day, you know, not just for Montreal fans, but New Jersey, Colorado, San Jose, just even hockey fans and I think of all the clients he represented and Frederick Anderson of course of Carolina's front and center on the just an initial thought on the passing of Claude Lemieux who we just saw Saturday of the smile on his face and pumping his fist in the air and 21,000 going crazy at the Bell Center on Saturday nights.

You just mentioned him, you know, pumping his fists and yeah, that's something that even I saw yesterday and I was impressed by, you know, what, Claude did. All right. We'll try to get Renaud back. He's on location right now. We'll try to get him back here on the program. And that is for a lot of people going to be the lasting image of Clod Lemieux,

seeing him with the Bell Center on Saturday with the Montreal Canaanian's Torch and the fist held high. And the fans surrounding him and cheering. We have Renaud back. Sorry, we just go there for a second. No problem, Reno. Every time someone is calling, I guess the line is, again, out so I put it on mute. That being said, I was impressed with, you know, close reaction on Monday. And to hear the news this morning early, it was a shock. I talked to his brother

Jocelyn this morning and obviously it was not a good moment for him personally. And And it's a shock. It's a real shock for all of Montreal Canaan's hockey fan. You know, before the start of game one against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round, I mentioned that I felt like the Montreal Caneans of today look really like the Montreal Canines of 1986, right? With a young goalie named Patrick Waugh and all the youngsters. and, you know, Chris Chilios, who was still a young player in the league. And you have the veteran players like Larry Robertson and Bob Ganey.

So I mentioned that there's a lot of similarities between, you know, what Nick Suzuki did and Matt Snessland, the last player, to have 100 plus points with the Canadians. And Claude was such a big part of the Montreal Canadiens in 1986. One of the reasons why they won that sand like up, I remember vividly the goal against Mike Lute in overtime, against the whalers, that Coltscore, one of the biggest gold in the Montreal Cane's franchise. And the impact that he had, you know, over the years and not only with the Montreal Caneans, but as you just mentioned before, I came on air, you know, with the devils winning a consmite, all the excitement with the avalanche against the red wings.

I mean, and I remember, like it was what, more than 15 years ago, receive a phone call from someone that says to me, you know what, Cloughlinu wants to come back in the NHL. It's like, Clothabu wants to come back in the NHL. What are we talking about here? And first thing you know is, yes, I think he went to Japan or China to play, something like that. China. With a team, China, a team called the Sharks, by the way.

In China, and first thing you know, he came back in the NHL. It was one of his dream to come back and play for the San Jose Sharks. And what a career, what a personality. one of fan favorite in Montreal no doubt about it that's one of the main reason obviously

he was at the Bell Center on Monday and received all the love from the Montreal Canes fan to hear you know the news today is it's not something

that you're prepared to to be honest with you not at all by the way young Chris Chelyos what is that 45, 46 years old back in 86 is that a young

Chris Chilioleys expect them I'm glad you bought up the comeback because I found it to be. So he plays for Dallas and then he effectively leaves. He goes on pros versus Joe's, which was a TV show here in the States on Spike TV, where professional athletes take on amateurs in a bunch of sporting events. And then he goes on Battle of the Blades,

the Dancing with the Stars but Figure Skating show on CBC. And then after that, he decides to come back and play in the NBA. That's a part of the story that I don't think got enough attention. It's just like, what a wild way to finish your career. You know what? You have a great memory because I didn't remember about all you just mentioned, but it's true.

Now it's getting back at me, and that's cold in a nutshell, right? Type of person wants to prove the rest of the world that he can do it. If there's, don't tell me I can't do it. I will show you. And I remember, guys, I know I was young back then, maybe 12, 13 years old, but when you're born and raised, and even it was all Quebec just across the river, and Ottawa was across that river, the Ottawa centers didn't exist back then. So everyone in Quebec was either a Montreal canadian fan or a Quebec Nord-Eaks fan, right?

Back in the days. And my team was obviously the Montreal Canean. So just to read the Journal of Montreal every day, there was probably during training camp 12 pages, only in the journal about Montreal Cane's training camp. And Claude Lemieux was cut in 85 by Pat Bird, not Pat Byrd, so it was Jean-Pé-Hon who was there back then. So they cut in after a few weeks at training camp.

camp and he's so upset that I remember that he broke, I don't know if it was his car or someone else's car, the window of that car, he just punched the window leaving the arena, broke that window. I remember like it was yesterday and people were like, my God, this kid's got tons of temper. But he was always playing with a lot of emotions, always playing on the edge. remember the big brawl between the flyers and the Montreal canes in warm-up oh yeah yeah with Shane Corson watching and Chico Resch. Ed Hospitr, don't forget Ed Hospitaler. Ed Hospital and Chico was telling me the other day.

I was staying at an hospital. What are you doing? Stop punching him. And the first thing you remember, you know, is there was, like everyone was on the ice punching each other. So Claude was playing like it was his last game all the time. It was a good example, I believe. Even if you can say that, that's not the way hockey should be played.

You can't find any excuses for reasons not to like him. But if you were a teammate of him, you know that you were going at war every night. And that he's going to probably bring war at you. at the same time. I did double check my facts. That was the classic Clode having to score to his opponent's net during warmups that sparked that whole thing, right?

That was, wasn't there a team that put that like tipped over the net to make sure that Claude couldn't do that at some point during warmups? I've got that being a thing at some point. I would imagine. But that thing happened. That was, yeah, everything. That was a, I mean, that was a, that was spade. I mean, there's, this is the warmups.

There's no officials on the ice. I remember watching this thing. I'm like, what am I seeing? And the next thing, you know, Dave Brown is coming out without a jersey and no shoulder pads and he's trying to get it in Ireland and everyone's was one of the wildest things we ever saw. But, you know, one of the points, again, like I'll come back to this idea, Renaud. We hear a lot of players say, I'll do anything to win a hockey game.

And Claude was, like, normally what they mean is I'll do anything on my terms. But Claude was like, literally, I'll do anything. I'll do anything to win a hockey game. Like that was that was Claude Lemieux. That was Claude Lemieux. Yeah. In a nutshell, like, you know, he was not the type of player that's got all the tools in the toolbox, right? Skill-wise, he was no Gila Fleur.

But at the same time, it was tough to find a player who was playing with such emotion. so much emotion and the way like like i remember watching him play and he was always all in it must have been really really tough to be club lew and the way he was playing shift after shift night after night and when you and i'm pretty sure guys you have the luxury like i have to talk to him uh after a game or before a game in a dressing room what's fantastic about clow he was so calm. Yes. Like never raising his voice.

Never being upset around people, just speaking calmly to you. But when he put that jersey on it, he was a warrior out there. He wanted to go against you. It must have been a pain you know where to play against Claude of you. It must have been crazy. And the goals that he score over his career, I talked to, I was just, talking a few minutes ago about, you know, that goal he scored, you know, in overtime against the whalers. And after that, the cons might with the devils, I mean, like, it was always

timely goals, important goals, important hits. He could change a game with a hit, with a goal. He had a lot of tools in a way to make the difference. A small thing about him. One of the great mysteries for me about, about, about Claude to speak to your point about his sort of serene nature. I've always been curious about what it was like to negotiate with him on a contract as an agent. Like what was that? You're right, because he wasn't like, he wouldn't go berserk, but I wonder if he went berserk in the room with these GMs.

You have to wonder, but, you know, he's a competitor. He was one of the greatest competitor in the game. pretty sure that he was competing for the best deals. But we've been around the game for a long time. Personally, I don't remember someone saying to me, you know what, Klois Mu is not a good agent. The way he's acting is not a real pro. That's the other way around.

I never heard a bad story as the agent, Kloomu, the agent. Never. I don't know if you have some, but I don't have any. The opposite. To the point where I know that after game three on Monday, Frederick Anderson went out of his way to talk about how happy he was. And he's, I think Claude's been with him from day one. I want to say, I might be wrong. I think he's been with Freddie from the first day.

And he went out of his way to talk about just how happy he was to see his agent. his friend, Quote Lemieux there with the torch on Monday before game three. Like, he was loved by his clients. Go ask all of, Raz Anderson, Joel Erickson. I go right down. Loved by his clients. Yeah. Yeah.

And like I mentioned, I've never heard a bad thing. Like you can find around the game back in the days players hating Claude Lemieux, but I'm pretty sure it was music to his own year, right? Yeah, you can buy one or two. You can find one or two guys that might not like Plowdumew back in the day. And maybe some coaches, and maybe some coaches too. And maybe some coaches too.

Oh, yeah. Rennel, I know you have... Own coaches. Own coaches. Not only the opposite. Pat Burns with the McCreary incident. Pat Burns. Yeah, for sure.

Pat Burns was getting tired of him. That's for sure. I know you have a lot of responsibilities now with the unfortunate news. We appreciate you parking some time with us today, Renaud. Thank you so much, Mon of me. Listen, we all think of the next time we're going to... Yeah, we'll talk about hockey. Hopefully.

Yeah, but talking about Clod today, I think is really important because his legacy needs to be remembered for a long time. Absolutely. It will be. Well said. All right. Abien, merci, Moncham. Enjoy the rest of you. Thank you for sharing these memories.

Thank you. Thanks for having me. The other thing that I used to just love about, because you talked about the eyes and I was part of it, but that smirk. Like that Claude Lemieux smirk, like, I don't know. We always have like, who has like the crazy. eyes in the game and like Hula has those psycho eyes. I don't know, man.

Claw Lemieux smirk after doing something. Psycho eyes and a shitty grin for a guy that just like just like you know hit you from behind and then scored the game when a goal. By the way, the game I was referring to Eastern Conference Final 1995.

Devils win the first two games in Philly. Oh, they're cruising. Here we go. Stanley Cup time. Philly wins the next two games in Jersey. Oh, shit. Oh, boy. Game 5, Philadelphia.

Claude Lemieux scores an unassisted goal with 45 seconds left in regulation. Past who was the goalie? I think it was Hextall, right? Yeah, past Hextall to give the doubles the win in game five and they ultimately win the series in game six and then play for the cup. And the rest of those they say in his history. But that goal is probably second to Neidermeyer's goal in Detroit as far as like the biggest goal of the playoffs during that devil's run.

But yeah, man, what a, what a time to be alive for that, to watch that guy in the playoffs when he was doing his thing. Oh, and everyone knew it was coming because he would flip the proverbial switch. Anything else? Like, I don't, uh, it's upsetting because it's such a nice man, too. Like, I don't know how much you got to know, Clod Lemieux as, you know, the, the agent afterwards, but like, he was always such a wonderful guy to talk to. Only a couple of interactions. I really enjoyed every interaction that I ever had with Clodley Me. And I'd always come away from it going like, wow.

Like how, and I'm glad that Renaud mentioned that. Like before the game, after the game. Nice, charming, wonderful guy to be around. I don't often do this, but I did during one conversation with him when we were talking about, you know, one of his clients. I think at the end of the conversation, I did do the, you know, not for nothing, but. You might have been my favorite player growing up. And he was, you know, thankful and didn't really want to go into it. But I'm like, you know, shit, man, you won the cons from my.

I was in the fucking building in 95. Well, you guys won the cup. Yeah, just it, just to just. And again, for those who didn't get a chance to watch him and maybe only know him from the, the chicanery against the Red Wings or maybe you know the name. But like, you know, the people that that we hold up as being the greatest. or rats or whatever, like, you know, the way that we've put the Florida Panthers on a pedestal. Like, they are the sons of Claude Lemieux, ladies and gentlemen.

Like the people that have the ability to get under someone's skin while also destroying them on the scoreboard, a la Brad Marchand, all of Matthew Kachuk. Like, these are all part of the same bloodline as Claude Lemieux was. And there's a lot of traditions in hockey that have gone by the wayside, Merrick. Many of them that we've talked about on this show through the years that involve your fists. That through line has existed for decades. They're always going to be Claude Lemieux. They're always going to be Brad Marchands.

They're always going to be Matthew Kachucks. And they make hockey, Sam Bennett, should have mentioned him. They make hockey fun. And they usually win cups. There's an old military saying, which is victory has many fathers, but that role in the NHL has one father. And it's Claude Lemieux. and to your other point,

begat, Brad Marchand, begat, Sam Bennett, begat, Matthew Goodchuk, et cetera, et cetera, thanks for stopping by it today. Yeah,

I mean, it's what we do. It's a huge bummer. It really is, it sucks. It's awful. The hockey world is a poorer place today without Claude the Mew in it.

condolences to his family, condolences to his friends and everybody that knew and worked with him, and all of his clients as well, many of whom you're still going to watch here play in the, in the NHL. We mentioned Freddie Anderson and, you know, Rasmus Anderson is off to the Stanley Cup final as well. So we think about them and we think about his family. Brendan is playing at Davos right now in Switzerland as well. I can only imagine. I hadn't thought about Jocelyn in a minute until. I know, right?

Yeah. I mentioned them. Yeah, that's a name from the past. All right. Yeah, no, I'm off to Raleigh tonight for game five. I assume. Just found a personal note. The child care challenges that come with having a six-month-old during the Stanley Cup playoffs

are exacerbated when all of a sudden the next series you plan to cover maybe moved up a couple days as the Stanley Cup final. appears it will be. So shout out to my sister who will be assisting us in a pretty major way next week, potentially. Takes a village, takes a village. And then, and then, you know, we'll see where it all goes.

Briefly, because you did mention it, like, and I don't want to like it off on a tangent here on a very sad day, but I do like the back-to-back games against the same team. I like it being it's Boston weekend or it's, you know, Rangers weekend. Like I find that to be cool. I find it to be interesting. The only point about that is some of them will be special, but not all of them will.

Like for every like, oh, it's Boston weekend. It's insert Team X who has where there's no issue. No. I get that. But I also think that in an 84 game season where we've, you know, discussed Adnossim about the grind of this year with the Olympic break. and we're only going to have more international shit in the middle of the season that they're going to have to compress the schedule for.

The idea that maybe you guys give these guys a break by playing two games in the same city over the course of a weekend is probably a benefit to them too. By the way, I am completely buying all in on my theory that Tortorale is playing for the Cup because his team only had to play eight games for him in the regular season,

and Brindamore is going to play for the Cup because his team only had to play what was it? 13 games if they win in game 5 in the postseason. Like this is what had to happen for these taskmasters to not grind their players into dust before they could play for the cup and the stars aligned for them this year. Love it. All right.

You know what? We're going to, we'll bracket the Gregor Peace conversation. I will direct people though, however, to Oilersnation. com for the Jason Greger piece about six changes I'd make if I were NHL Commissioner. Give me one of these per day. You don't mind lately is that I keep banging on? What's that? No more neutral zone face-offs.

We start with the puck either at center ice or beside the net. Keep it hot at all times. You went offside. Guess what? The puck is coming back into your own zone. Don't drop pucks in dead zones. Anyhow, more on this one next time you're with us. You're gold with stuff like this.

So I want to go over the Gregor piece next time you're on. Okay. You do a whole show on that stuff, man. Oh, amen. Summer's coming, Greg. Summer's coming, buddy. It's pretty weak on the sheet. As a hockey writer, man.

That is a phrase filled with hope and dread. I get to see my family. I also have to create content. Oh, boy. It's July 23rd. What am I going to do? All right. We'll talk soon.

I'm sure the rest of your day, pal. Take care. There he is Greg Wischinski from ESPN and ESPN.com. Really quick, Zach. Before you move along here, we've got a couple of things here to still tidy up. Anything from the chat about Clod Lemieux? I don't know if you have a thought on Clode as well. I don't know if you were too young to sort of really get the Clod Lemieux experience in the NHL,

but I can assure you as someone that watched all of it, even going back to when he played in Verdun and then through the juniors in 85. It was an experience. one of the most interesting players who have ever played the game. Yeah, to be honest, a little too young to have experienced it. But that said, with the era of hockey that I grew up in and into today,

that's the most commonly referred to player. When you look at players, like, as you guys mentioned, Matthew Kichuk or Sam Bennett's and those kinds of guys saying, plays like Claude Lemieux, brings to the table something like Claude Lemieux brought to the table.

So, you know, for me, it's always getting an understanding of that and knowing what type of player he was, hearing the stories about him. It's always amazing to hear. And I love the description always. It's the guy that you would hate to play against, but you love on your team. That seems to be exactly who he is. So, you know, obviously I didn't get to experience very much of Claude Lemieux as a player, but it seems like the kind of player that I would have loved to watch, to be honest with you. Great guy to introduce me to Peter Forrestberg.

One of the biggest thrills. That's your wife, Jeffrey, ever. That's not bad. Yeah, hello, Clote. Anyway, briefly, briefly. Quick word from our friends at Airbnb. Feeling at home when you're on the road. For me, that's the way to travel.

You know, Zach and I have been doing a lot of travel lately, mainly to Western Canada for hockey games and interviews. Panticton and Colonna were gorgeous. If you've never been to the Okinawagans, and do yourself a favor, no matter what time of year. Highlights from the Okanagan for you, Zach. It was my first time out there, and I can't wait to get back. It was amazing, trying to go in the summer and see some of the national parks and those kinds of things.

You know, if you're heading out there, I've had great experiences staying in local and unique places on Airbnb. You know, you can really find something that fits what you need. And, Zach, because we do our shows and podcasts on the road a lot, we need a lot of space for our, equipment. We can't be cramped and we need to feel comfortable. Plus, it's always nice to find a place with cool amenities like, I don't know, a pool table, outdoor space or, I don't know you love this, a hot tub. It's also always nice to feel like you're going home as opposed to just going back to your room. Yeah, I think we all know that feeling.

You know, I remember thinking this while we were at that cottage we booked on Airbnb last summer. While we're out on work trips like that, our place back home is just, sitting there. So hosting our place on Airbnb could be a way to make use of that space on our own schedule and maybe have a little extra coming in while we're gone. In Zach's case, maybe that means a few more additions to his junior hockey hat collection. What do you have now, Zach? I'm stocked up now. Kitchener, Brantford, Colonna, St. John. I'm hoping this isn't the end of it and I've got a lot more coming. We all need package. Folks, we all need passions.

Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb.ca slash host. Well, there's 61 CHL team, so you still got a lot of lids to get to there. Yeah, but you've got to get some of the hipster ones like the old teams that don't exist anymore, Cornwall Royals, although maybe Cornwall will be back in the OHL at some point. That's right.

That's right. We all wonder about expanding markets, et cetera. Real quick, quick takeaways from last night before we get to your, I don't know what you're going to do for this one today. We got a blank calendar today. But what did you make a last night? Any takeaways for you? Other than just Carolina dominating?

Yeah, I mean, the one takeaway that I kind of had, and it's no shade at Montreal here in any sense, but I get the feeling more after watching the last couple of games that game one had a lot more to do with Carolina. being rusty coming off the last series than it did with Montreal like i don't know i don't want to diminish what montreal did in game one but do you get where i'm getting at here where it's like that was carolina just not being ready to go in that one and kind of looking around and going you came off of a heavy game seven back to back game sevens you're full into the intensity and we just had the longest

layoff in a history of nchl playoffs like our brains aren't there our bodies aren't there and now the last three games, you've really seen that pick up for Carolina. The more that I look back on it, the more I just wonder if Carolina was just too excited to play. There's just too much anticipation, too much of a layoff. Because they did, like, we came away from that going like, did Jacob Slavin forget how to play hockey? Like, when have you ever seen Slavin that?

And it was the whole roster. Everybody was awful. And the only thing that I, the more that I think about it is like, because we saw like, when do you have to see like three Carolina hurricanes, chase a puck character? never saw it in game one i just wonder if they were just too exuberant and they're just like dying to play so much and finally get back out there that they just turn their brains off like that's carolina with their brains off that's what it's what it's what it's actually probably a better way to put it that's a better way to put it than what i was at it yeah i think that that's a pretty fair assessment

just given the way that that game won uh but yeah either way like i think that the layoff just really hit them hard whether it was the lack of you know, like being in the moment or being too excited either way, I think it's, I think it got to them. Okay. The sheet is powered by Fanduel. Play your game with Fanduel. It's the NHL season, and Fandul is your home for all the action on the ice.

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They're not. That would be something else if they're putting odds on that. I don't have a parlay for today, and I was thinking about doing it today, but then that would take away from tomorrow. I'll just save it for tomorrow. But I was looking through Fandul and trying to see what they had for some cool markets or anything like that that they have posted.

I like this one, and I want to share it with you and share with everyone in the chat to take a look at. They have this Carolina or Montreal player to score the series clinching goal. So right now, obviously, every single Carolina Hurricanes player is listed at the top. But I like this one. Oh, yeah. Because if it doesn't happen tomorrow night, your bet's still alive and you could win in game

six if it takes game six. I'm not seeing Freddie Anderson on there, although he might be the only one. Yeah, exactly. Where's Busty? So Busty's got a better chance to Nick Suzuki, I guess is what you were saying. Pretty much. I think if I had to. take a pick at somebody to score the series clenching goal, which would just be defined as the game

winner. And it could be tomorrow. It could be game six. It could be eight seven if it takes it that long. Jackson Blake. Jackson Blake. I'm looking at those two. I'm looking at Stankoven and Jackson Blake as my two picks. So at Stankoven right now, you could get it at plus 850 and Jackson Blake you get plus 1,000. So I think Jeff, you and I are on the same page. But those are the two that I was looking at. The one that I would really love to see, just because I love the backstory and how he got to the NHL and he was on the program not too long ago, Sean Walker. I love to see Sean Walker get something like that. And I think Greg was right.

Like all of a sudden like Sean Walker has been playing, not I shouldn't say all of a sudden, but Sean Walker's been playing out of his mind. He's been fantastic for this team. I know I'm going on a lot about K. Andre Miller, but it is that entire back end. That has just been great. And we'll be curious to see, sorry Montreal fans, it'll be really interesting to see what happens when they face off against the nights. Having said that, I'm only too happy to watch the single seven.

games, as I think we all are. Yeah, I don't really get the warm and fuzzies about seven games happening here, to be completely honest with you, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, on that, we'll wrap up. Can I just give a few programming notes quickly across the network for people? I should be doing a better job of that myself. It's a good thing we have you. No, you're doing the actual work here.

What do we got coming up? You do enough here, Jeff. So two things for people. Actually, I guess technically three, but the Everett series coming out here on the Daily Face Off channel. The Landon DuPont interview dropped last night. We have the Everett feature coming up in a couple hours here on this channel. So make sure to subscribe here and check all of that out featuring Carter Bear and Zoran, who joined you here on the show when you were in Everett.

He's great. And he's legend. You hear all the alumni talk about Zorant because he's been with, he's a day one or with Everett. They does, and for good reason. They love this guy. And you can thank him for your hat, by the way. Yes. I miss any things, but I got to get it.

Exactly. I got to get it for you. Still 50-50 on that one. I may just keep it. And then the other thing is if you are a baseball fan, specifically if you were a Blue Jays fan, the other thing to check out on the Blue Jays Nation YouTube channel launching today, hosts will be, it's a pregame show, and hosts will be Tyler your I'm Chuck,

Dan Riccio, Nicolberga, Cody Gudrow, and Nick and Nick and Adam from Blue Jays today. No way. The first show is today at 5.30 p.m. over on the Blue Jays Nation show. So just a rotating cast of hosts that will be going through teeing up games, starting lineups, who's in, who's out, keys to success for the game,

about half an hour per show, an hour before Blue Jays game. So make sure to subscribe to the Blue Jays Nation YouTube channel and check that out. Flight Deck, the pregame show here, part of the Nation Network. Check that out. Love it. That's fantastic. Very much looking forward. to that one. Okay.

All exciting news. Thank you for that. Doing all the proper hosting work because, you know, a mediocre man. You do the real work. You do the real work. I just fill it in some spots here. Big game last night for the Carolina Hurricanes. They blank the Montreal Canadians. Your thoughts coming up next.

Woo, I'm going to need a nap. Some hard work I do here. You do harder work than I do. So thanks a much for watching. Thanks for listening. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for subscribing. again condolences to the friends and family of Claude Lemieux.

Again, the hockey world is poorer without him in it today. We'll talk tomorrow here on the show.