The Sheet with Jeff Marek - Deadline Day Recap ft. Brian Burke

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

Jeff Marek is joined by Brian Burke for a special Burkie Friday to recap the NHL Trade Deadline. Discussing the Mikko Rantanen to Dallas Stars deal, the Toronto Maple Leafs acquiring Scott Laughton, Winnipeg adding Luke Schenn and Brandon Tanev, the Ottawa Senators trading for Dylan Cozens, and much more.Shout out to our sponsors!👍🏼 Fan Duel: https://www.fanduel.com/👍🏼 Tim Hortons: https://www.timhortons.ca/rollupReach 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/@Flames_Nation🚨 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-faceoff Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Learn more at Fizz.ca. Switch to Fizz. Okay, so the Stanley Cup final was set today. Clearly the Florida Panthers will face off against the Dallas Stars. What a day that was. And the trades keep on trickling in too. So more of those as the show continues here. On our daily face-off YouTube channel, congratulations. And take a bow to everyone involved in our trade coverage today. From 11 a.m. Eastern to about five minutes ago. Well done everyone, front-facing, behind the scenes. Involved in it's take a bow, good to be part of the team.

Now then, couple of things. Brian Burke's gonna stop by here in a couple of moments Zack Phillips has been very busy Playing the keyboards behind you right there. I just gonna like sort of try to make you part of the band here Zack it is gonna try to make you part of small town strip club every time we announce you coming in It's gonna be playing the keyboards in the background We have a lot to get to today and look the Florida Panthers stole the show, the Dallas Stars stole the show, the Colorado Avalanche did themselves a real big favor not just last night but today as well. We're starting to see

gap, the Vancouver Canucks really did not do a whole lot. And then there was an open mouth, insert foot moment from the general manager, which we'll get to here in a couple of moments. But before we get to what's on the show today, coming up here and a lot of trades to go over, what stood out most to you? To me, it was a lot of following the Rantzenen news and the Wyatt Johnston extension. So I was kind of all over Dallas today,

but what did it for you? Rantzenen was the big one for me. I feel like a lot of people were waiting for that Domino to fall. Like, where's he going to go? Is that going to happen? And then once we saw that, it felt like there was a lot more trades that started kicking into gear. There was obviously people who were still kind of moving about the day and that wasn't

going to bother them. Winnipeg being one of those teams who just kept moving. But it did feel like we were all waiting on that. And then when that finally hit, it was like floodgates open. It felt like we started seeing a lot of trades come in. Good to see you. You were on that one first there, eh? On the ranton. But if it doesn't happen on the show, did it really happen? If a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to... Yeah, thanks for that one. Broken clock moment.

Blind squirrel finds a nut I suppose. And then there was a Wyatt Johnson situation too. No, just glad that we were able to get it out there and the analysts had a good shin scratch about it. Listen, I thought the analyst panels were great. Like I thought Laz, like Laz continues to impress so much. Barney I've worked with for years and known for years. He's always good. Irf was fantastic. Carter Hutton is an emerging star and you know

Matty Larkin from the website as well with the the trade analysis and the grades was fantastic too. So had it all out and there's more trades trickling in and it's well let's just get towards what's on the program today and we're gonna chime in with people on the chat here coming up in a couple of moments and yes I expect the lead story here to be Daniel Sprong to the New Jersey Devils. Let's see if Zach, you and I have symbiotic brains here. Are we on that?

Oh no. Okay. So, Bricky gets billing over Daniel Sprong. Okay. Whatever, I suppose. Just because he managed teams in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup in 2007 with the Anaheim Ducks. Fine. Trade Deadline recap with Brian Burke.

Lots to get to from someone who was part of it and I hope that we get the Brian Burke line early as soon as we get Burke on. For those of you who were with us yesterday and for those of you who have been with me ever since Brian and I started broadcasting together, you know exactly what I'm talking about today. So Dallas Big Winners, they secure the services of Meiko Rantzenen and sign the eight-year contract extension. We'll go over that one. We have a whole lot to get to today. Listen, I know that some when I always I always have a hard time saying winners and losers on trade deadline day

because winners kind of like in the offseason or free agency you just look at and you say whoever picked up the biggest name players they won deadline but then I remind myself and I'll remind everybody too in the summer we all thought the Nashville Predators had won the offseason because of Ray Deshais and Stephen Stamkos and Jonathan Marcheseau. Oh now, oh don't worry, here come the Preds. They're taking another step, you know, pencil them in, conference final, etc. They're gonna do some damage. So as I'm sure Brian will tell us here in a couple of seconds, it's not necessarily the big name that you bring in at trade deadline.

Just like it's not always the big free agent you bring in on July 1st, sometimes it's the tweaks. It's not the big trades. But nonetheless, from a show business point of view, this was a fantastic day. And someone who understands hockey and show business joins us every Friday here on the sheet. He is a former NHL general manager. He is the one and only Brian Burke and he joins us as now Brian trade deadline has come and gone to which Brian Burke Says what I'm setting you up here. I checked again

And what happened and then I tell confirm they're only awarded one Stanley Cup only one Stanley every year Yeah, well first of all, it's good to have you on the beat because you're the only one that checks perky every year to make sure They're only giving away One Stanley Cup. I will give you homework next year. I want to know if they're only going to be using one puck For future games, but we'll get to that on a different show Dallas stealing the show today. So the Mico Ranton and deal with the Carolina Hurricanes The Maple Leafs helped themselves the Florida Panthers just got extra radier now.

Like if you didn't think that the Florida Panthers were miserable to play against, they just added Brad Marshand to the mix. This is after last week, adding Seth Jones to the mix. Colorado helped themselves a lot. When you look at today, let's just go, let's just go reverse triangle, big picture, and then drill down. What jumps out most to you, Berkey? Okay. First off, I think I read somewhere in the Hockey Hall of Fame, there is a puck that

lasted through an entire game. It was never shot out of play. It's in the Hockey Hall of Fame. I'm going to throw a dart and you're going to think that I'm a real geek. I think it was from a Minnesota LA game. I think it was Minnesota for sure. I think it was Minnesota. Okay, but yes, that is true. There was one game where they only used one puck, correct? But for us today, the winners and losers, I mean, you've touched on all the big name players that moved and the big changes that were made. Colorado clearly made a lot of noise. Florida clearly made a lot of noise. Boston made a lot of noise going the other way. Tampa Bay had a lot better. Toronto got a lot better.

What a dog fight. But I'm going to say it one more time. There is only one cup. This is the problem with the math, the arithmetic. It doesn't work this time of year. There's going to be 20 teams that got better, some for different reasons, but the teams that are getting better thinking they can win it all. Like if between the two Florida teams, well, only one is coming out.

I got news for it. Yeah. So, so, so let me ask you this. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to let you choose. Okay. So you've gone to the restaurant, they handed you the menu on the one side of the menu, it says happy and on the other side, it says grumpy. Do you want to start with grumpy topics today, or do you want to start with happy topics today? I really hope you says grumpy. Do you wanna start with grumpy topics today or do you wanna start with happy topics today?

I really hope you say grumpy. Grumpy. All right, grumpy, here we go. This is new territory for the Boston Bruins. Going back to when they won the Stanley Cup in 2011, we've seen a consistently good, competitive, aggressive, at-time Stanley Cup-worthy worthy Boston Bruins and now for the first time in this generation they're taking the step back. You know they move

Marchand today, they move Coil today to Colorado. We saw Justin Brazo go to the Minnesota Wild, Brandon Carlo goes within the two trades within the division. Know how much that matters to you Berkey but like one to Florida, one to the Toronto Maple Leafs, Carlo goes to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Carlo goes to the Toronto Maple Leafs. This is virgin territory for this generation's edition of the Bruins. Well, I hope ownership understands what's being done here.

It takes a tremendous amount of balls and courage. It takes a lot of chutzpah. I hope ownership understands that, that what Don Swinney did today takes a lot of guts. Andah. I hope ownership understands that. What Don Swinney did today takes a lot of guts. And it's the right thing to do. They reached a point, they had a career, a standard of excellence for a dozen years. They won one cup. They'd been in contention every year. They had great, great players. They retired over time one by one. It was time to make this move. But not many guys have the guts to do it.

Goal ownership is smart enough and guts enough to acknowledge that. And Donnie Sweeney doesn't pay a price for this because that's the risk. They stripped it right down to the wood. I'll be honest with you, I'm more than a little bit surprised to see Brad Marchand leave.

Now, you know better than I do the way the contract negotiations can go. And there's nothing saying that Brad Marchand leave. Now, you know better than I do the way the contract negotiations can go. And there's nothing saying that Brad Marchand can't come back on July 1st, ala Keith Kachak goes from St. Louis to Atlanta and then back to St. Louis so many years ago. But I don't know that Boston likes their legends leaving to go somewhere else

during the shady side of the mountain of their career. Patrice Bergeron retires as a Bruin. I always got the sense that they wanted Zdeno Chara to just have that, after the Ottawa trade obviously and the Allenders before that, but have that clean run as a Boston Bruin before calling it a career. Does the Marchand move surprise you from Boston's point of view? And just put your head back and fantasize for a second. You now have a team in the NHL that has Brad Marchand,

Matthew Kachuk and Sam Bennett on it. No thanks, Berkey. Yeah, no, I just wonder, you gotta find playing time for everyone. Everyone's gotta find a role. Sometimes too much change is difficult and hard for a team to absorb. I were it at Florida. It didn't go too hard today, but we'll see. We'll find out. I applaud the acquisitions. I love Brad Marshawn as a player, but you're

right. It's weird to think of him in anything other than a Boston Bruins sweater. I felt the same way when I traded Jake Ansell to Carolina. I said he didn't deserve that. And I felt the same way about this. So I hope there's a way to come back. My guess is this is a Steven Stancoast type situation. They want the player back, but term was a huge issue. That's my guess. Right.

Um, so, uh, who helped themselves most significantly for the playoffs? Like I mentioned off the top of my cheek. Okay. The Stanley Cup final is set at the Dallas Stars and the Florida Panthers, but in your mind, because again, like I've pointed this out to you before, you and I have talked about this countless times. When you won the Stanley Cup in 2007,

you've always cited the Brad May move as the most important trade that year that you made. Well, we were very close. Obviously we felt a lot of change wasn't needed, but we didn't defend either. The Stanley Cup champion and I'm not will not be remembered as one of the great teams of all time, even though it was clearly one of the best teams in 20 years because we didn't repeat. I don't think if you don't repeat, you can't claim you're one of the best

teams of all time, in my opinion. So that was that was a problem for me. and better they've gotten in a short time and that's a great it's a great thing for the game to see those type of rivalries get sharpened like that height right before the deadline so we're gonna bounce around a lot of things here today and I'm glad you mentioned that Anaheim team in 207 now I was one of those guys that if I had a vote for the Conn Smythe Trophy, top of my list would have been Sammy Paulson. Third line center. I thought you guys had the best third line in hockey.

Uh, Mowen and Rob Niedermeyer with Sammy Paulson. I thought Sammy Paulson was tremendous. And we've talked about before how third lines can really help you win the Stanley Cup, we think of Tampa with, uh, well, with Yanni Gourde, whom they have back now. But that's why I want to get to Charlie Coyle and the Colorado Avalanche. So Nathan McKinnon's a big dog and they have Brock Nelson. And now you have Charlie Coyle as well.

Like I look at Colorado, and if you believe you can win down the middle, I look at him and I say, he's not the same player that Sammy Paulson was, but in spirit. You know, we know about the high end of Colorado. They've short up the goaltending and now all of a sudden they've got themselves as solid third line center in Charlie.

Well, they re they rewrote the goaltending book earlier in the year. They did. They took out both goaltenders. Yeah. So what if Colorado was successful again, that will be what's remembered is they had took a lot of nerve what they did to switching out both goalies. It's hard to do. It's very rarely done.

And it's not almost never successful if you do it. So that's amazing. And it changes. I mean, Charlie Quill to me is a prototype, prototypical third line center. And he played up higher in the lineup. Should have been a third line center a couple of years ago. He's big. He's a right shot.

He's a great kid and wonderfully young man works hard. The only thing that differs between him and Sammy Paulson to me is Sammy was smaller and Sammy had a little more bite. Charlie Coyle is a good player, plays hard, but Sammy had bite and Charlie doesn't provide that same bite, but they definitely got better. Look at the lineup now. They can dress. Oh, I know. It's good on the island. First of all, that central division, like look, all of a sudden,

Brandon Tanev comes in, Luke Shen comes in, that's Winnipeg. We're going to get to Dallas here in a second and now you've got Colorado loading up. First of all, I'm just dying for a Colorado Dallas series. I miss those games and I miss those series dearly. They're so wonderful and violent and highly skilled. When you look at that central division, all of a sudden, like Burkey, you thought it was strong before, everybody loaded up. Everybody. Yeah. That finish in the first place is going to carry some awful consequence

for at least one team in the East and at least one team in the West. Yeah. and matchups. I'm excited about it. I love it. I love big days like this. But again, always have to temper yourself and say, I checked. Because there's going to be bitter disappointment. The price tags, the price tags that were paid for all of these moves, it's horrendous. It's like the third world debt. But you know what? I do wonder too, how much, see, here's what I'm wondering about. Now, you can talk to me, you always do, but like really put on your GM's hat here. High prices, yes, but unlike previous years here, post pandemic, the cap hasn't been flat.

So how many general managers are looking at trade deadline and saying, you know what, yeah, the prices are high, but we have more room to fix mistakes. Or if we paid a little bit too much, we can clean that up in the off season because now, you know, the joints are a little more greased because we have more cap space. Does that work for you at all? No question. That's the thinking behind it.

But the problem is, there's only maybe 15 quality players that will dramatically upgrade your team, maybe 20. So if everyone spends $10 million of this new money on a player, they're one player better, they're not going to change your team around overnight. So I don't think the supply is there or the demand is there or maybe not the supply. So having money is nice, but unless you didn't buy something useful with it, you're better off just keeping it in the bank. Let me ask you about the, uh, the Dallas Stars.

I mean, they were the, uh, the head, before the Brad Marshand news hit, the Dallas Stars were the headline maker of the day. Miko Ratnan goes to the Dallas Stars. Logan Stankovic, who first round picks in a pair of thirds, go to the Carolina Hurricanes. This always, this after, Michael Granland and Cody Cece come in to help with the forces. Now, Jim Nel, Dallas general manager, has not been shy about telling the staff that we're going big game hunting this year. There's some speculation that if Calgary fell out of it, maybe Inazum Kadri goes to Dallas, maybe Erasmus Anderson goes to Dallas.

Dallas was in and around big names all year long and they got the biggest here at Deadline in Meekle Rantin and they resigned Wyatt Johnston. It is a five year deal. 8.4 is AAV automatically maybe the best value contract in the league considering Johnston's potential. What do you make of what Dallas was able to do today? Well, I think they've done a great job. Mind you, two first round picks, but where they pick, it's always going to be around 27 or higher probably. So it's not, you know, you can discount those picks a little bit, but two first round picks. I think Carolina did a good job. I think they did a terrible job of getting into this predicament, but I think they did a good job of

extricating themselves from it. Boggan Stankhoven is a player that'll make a difference. Mikko Randon, obviously, they're counting on getting the Colorado Mikko Randon, not the Carolina Mikko Randon. He didn't do much there. He got a little better the last couple games, but they're counting on him. And they got a reunion of Finns,

and Finns like each other, so it's good. You know, it'll be interesting, too, to watch the Dallas Stars go up against the Colorado Avalanche and watch Mikko Rantan and play against his old team. And clearly, he tends to excel in the Western Conference when you look at what he's able to do with the Avalanche. The other thing about this one, Bricky, too, and I'll put the two players together that highlighted Dallas today, Mikko Rantinen and Wyatt Johnston. Like eventually Jamie Ben is not gonna be on this team.

Eventually Tyler Sagan is not gonna be on this team. But when you look at bringing in Rantinen and extending Wyatt Johnston here, you know, we talk about windows and how long your cup window is. Like, do you not make the point that by bringing these, by bringing one in and extending the other, they've just opened up a few more windows for them to win.

Yes, they've done that. But they also inserted a formula for excellence for a long time. That's important in terms of ticket sales and sponsorship. At any rate, you can take confidence in this team being competitive for five or six years now. And their window is extended. They've they, they're already in the window that extended it. Now in my mind, they've done a great, Jim knows on an amazing job and that general manager of the year award probably is kind of him once, probably should go to him twice.

So then twice. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he might win it again. I get the hat trick. Mike at the hat trick, but there, um, no, I, he might win it again. Might get the hat trick. Might get the hat trick. But they're, no, I think it's, it's a, they've done a really good job in Dallas. So that's stable management, patience.

It's good. Uh, the scouting, I mean, hands, uh, you know, um, hats off to Joe McDonnell. He's done a great job. Rich Pevely with development, like, you've been part of organizations like this before. You get on these runs where it's not just the drafting, but the development, and kids spend enough time in the American Hockey League, and you compliment that with trades,

and you're still hanging on to Bork and Leon Bischel, and oh boy, now all they have to do is win a Stanley Cup. That's the easy part, right? What do you make of the Toronto Maple Leafs move? So they bring in Scott Lawton and, uh, they also bring in Brandon Carlo from the Boston Bruins. Well, Brandon Carlo is the more underrated of the moves. I would say I think Scott Lawton was the guy they talked about a lot.

That was filled a positional need for him. I think they upgraded their, their biggest positionally was the right shot defense and you can play shut down people play in the top four night They fill both those needs. I like what they've done. I think they're a better team I think the cost is gonna bite them a little bit in the ass on the way out Is any Fraser men's gonna be a hell of a player? We're not sure what the rest of the packages are But they could get bit here a little bit, but if they could win some that'd be worth it now finishing first

Has taken our old the meaning for the travel maple leafs in my mind. Uh, yeah. All of a sudden you don't want to go near Florida or Tampa in that first round. And I'll, I'll tell you what, if I'm a hockey fan and Berkey, I'm a hockey fan. I want to see Florida face off against Tampa in the opening round. And beat the snot out of each other. If I'm the Maple Leafs, that's what I'm caring about.

Yeah, that's true. I want first place to watch these guys go seven games, just destroying, just destroying one another. That's the wish. That is a wish. Buffalo Sabres and the Ottawa Senators, um, got together on an interesting deal. Buffalo Sabres got busy.

Um, uh, Jason Zucker re-ups with the team. Uh, we had talked about that earlier on this week. Uh, he wanted to stay, they wanted him to stay. They want veterans around the kids. One of the kids they sent packing was Dylan Cousins along with Dennis Gilbert and his second round draft pick. Want to get to that second in a second for Josh Norris

and Jacob Bernard Docher. The second round pick to me is interesting. I know Dylan Cousins hasn't had the best of all possible years, but now the Ottawa senators have sent someone in Josh Norris who's had three separate shoulder surgeries to the Buffalo Sabres. I know it was, if you're Buffalo,

you gotta make the money work on this one, and obviously it did, but I'm trying to get myself in the head of Kevin Adams here. I'm not sure that I know, and these are, let's not forget, these are two teams that are competing for one of those final wild card spots, and will probably be in the same position next year,

and weren't shy about trading with one another. Essentially even though there's more pieces this is Dylan Cousins for Josh Norris. What do you think? Well I like Josh Norris a lot. He's a really good player but he's hurt all the time. Like I said, he's not hurt a little bit. He's hurt a lot. He's hurt. He's played miss more games and he's played pretty well. So I'm not sure how this works. I'm puzzled by it. I like the player a lot. I think he's smart, he's played pretty well. So I'm not sure how this works. I'm puzzled by it. I like the player a lot. I think he's smart, he's intense, he works hard, he makes really good decisions, but

he's hurt all the time. Number one availability in pro sports or number one ability is availability. This kid's not available enough for me. So I'm not sure I understand this one. Uh, the Edmonton Oilers, by the way, have announced that, um, or Elliot, uh, also Oilers, Oilers announcing, Vandrick Kane will not return during the regular season. Now, I know a lot of us look at these situations and say one of two things. One, hold on, what's going on here?

Is this Nikita Kucherov, Mark Stone, Pat Kane all over again? And then there are others and I count myself as part of this group. This is why I have no problem with any of this. Salary cap, LTIR, as some would say chicanery. Why don't more teams do this or use this to their advantage? Where are you at on the situation now with the Vander Cane, which looks like the situation in Florida with Matthew Kachuk, which looked like the situation in Vegas with Mark Stone, which looked like the situation in Tampa with Nikita Kucherov and looked like the situation

in Chicago with Patrick Kane? Long-winded question. Berkey. Well, they've got a number of things they've got to clean up in the collective bargaining agreement. This is one of them, LTIR is one of them, whether there's chicanery or dishonesty. I know the league has investigated each

and every one of these. I know the league has looked in a, we had situations where I was in Calgary and Pittsburgh where we had long-term injuries. The league examined each of them closely, the medical records, everything. So the league is on top and satisfied that to this point any Chicanery or whatever word any maneuvers have been legal within the system, but it's something

Continuous perplex fans when your team loses out and they had $18,000,000 a cap room going into the playoffs like with the camp of a the one year and same with Vegas, people ask questions and get upset. They're like, well, it's clearly an unlevel playing field. So I think that's something they can address in collective bargaining. But I can tell you, I've had this conversation with Bill Daley and with the lawyers at the league and gone through it with players. They are confident that they are using legitimate injuries when people get hurt. They're they are confident that they're using legitimate injuries when people get hurt Brian I'm with you it I don't know that there's a

significant enough appetite to change this Like CPA is coming up right and this is a time where things like this get addressed and and get set I don't know that there's enough people banging the drum to change this I know various managers that said, well, we need to have a salary cap in the playoffs or mechanisms where if you can't play in game 82, you can't play in game one, things like that. But I'm just not sure. And listen, you're a manager, you know, managers. I don't know if there's an appetite to change it.

I really don't. Well, the appetite to change it might come from the fact that the union has stuff they want. They want, they'd love to keep this the same way. Managing would love to change it. The players have things they want. There's a laundry list. Whenever you go into collective bargaining, each side has a laundry list.

That might include more regular season games, fewer preseason games, a different format for the World Cup. They're all things that have to be worked out, but they've got their laundry list, trust me. And then they'll come in and they've got their laundry list, trust me. And then they'll come in and they'll put their list against the leagues and try and work out an extension, hopefully without any labor dispute. So that's the hope of everyone. But I think this was clearly the top, I think, of the owners position as far as LTIR.

I want to place something here for you now, Burki. The Vancouver Canucks relatively quiet. I mean, they made their big move with the New York Rangers with JT Miller. Brock Besser remains a member of the Vancouver Canucks. They moved out Carson Sousi. But Patrick Alveen, I'm not sure if you've seen or heard this before, but this one's a stunner. This one's a stunner. This one's a stunner.

Here's the quote from Patrick Alvin. Quote, if I told you guys what I was offered for Brock Besser, I would probably have to run out of there. That's a quote from the Vancouver Canucks general manager, Patrick Alvin, who still has Brock Besser in his lineup. Brock Besser is still a member of his team for the remainder of this season and essentially there's Patrick

Galvin saying people were offering me pennies on the dollar for this guy. You always gave memorable press conferences. We all from this side of the microphone enjoyed the Sedeen is not Swedish for headlock me in a sweat lock and punch me in a scrum. There was the, uh, testosterone and hostility and all the, all these, you had some beauties. I don't know that I've ever heard you come close to saying something like that by just devaluing a player that's on your roster once trade deadline is gone. Or maybe he meant the other way. Maybe he meant that if you, if you realize that you're the author's, I got it. You would have thought I would have made a deal or run me out of here. I'm not, not so sure about that one.

I'm not going to critique Patrick Colby because I like him. He's a friend of mine. I work with him in Pittsburgh. I have the same reactions. Probably some it's on the list of things I wish I hadn't said, because I have a long list of those too. I'm not going to throw, not throwing stones to Patrick Albee. God, I could take back some of the things I said I would, believe me. My, my favorite was still when you were talking to Gar Snow about, about getting

the first overall pick in John Tavares. Would you make the deal for five first, for first round picks? No. Yes, you, of course you would for four first round picks. I'm not going to give you, that was one of my favorite Berkies. Um, but what do you make of the Vancouver Canucks? I mean, this is pretty much silent night. I mentioned they did the deal with JT Miller.

That was their signature piece this year, obviously. Um, this is the team that's right in there with Calgary and Utah and St. Louis, uh, for a wild card spot. And they stayed the same. No decision to go for it. No decision to take a step backwards. Well, Jimmy and Patrick all being riverboat cameras, and they've committed a lot of assets already since they got to Vancouver.

I think their feeling is let's make sure we don't come in more assets if we don't have a reasonable chance of advancing in making a playoffs and winning around. There's no point. It's not the Vancouver Con is not the Columbus blue jacket. It's not a team that hasn't made the past for a number of years, or they're desperate to make the past for a number for first time in a number of years. It's a team that's had some class success. So they, they can, in my mind, I would say we're not good enough to win around.

Let's not spend a lot of assets and then get our ass kicked on top of it. Let's go out, you know, to see what we have. We believe in the group to this point. We did not strip. We did not strip down. So let's take what we have and see what we can do. Uh, let's, let's buzz around the Canadian teams here then. Um, Craig Conroy, general manager of the Calgary Flames, uh, has been quite open

and vocal about saying recently, no one's going, uh, we're in a playoff spot. Look where Dustin Wolf has us here to rejuvenated Jonathan Hubert. Oh, et cetera. We're not moving anybody and true to his word, they didn't move anybody. And here are the Calgary flames in a playoff playoff race. As I mentioned with Vancouver, Utah and St. Louis, your thoughts on Craig Conroy. I don't think Connie's capable of telling the lie.

I really don't want to. He's a, everything you see of his persona is accurate. He's not capable of telling the lie. He told you't want to. Everything you see of his persona is accurate. He's not capable of telling a lie. He told you he wasn't going to do much. He's going to stand back and he did. So anything Craig Carmelite says to me, I take it to the bank. Edmonton, they've made big moves. Trent Frederick and Max Jones, Jake Wallman comes in. The Oilers are very much in, we need to do something here. No one really, I mean, look, the central division has loaded up as we mentioned, but maybe not so much in the

Pacific. Your thoughts on what Stan Bowman has done recently and listen, this team was one game away from winning the Stanley Cup last year. Are they as good, not as good, the same and do they still have a shot at it? They're not as? And do they still have a shot at it? They're not as good, but they still have a shot at it. And the changes help. Trent Kendrick is a useful player. He can play up and down your lineup. He's good enough to play up in the top six. He's gritty enough and big enough and he can play in the bottom six.

He can fight, he can kill penalties. He's a useful player. I like that addition. I like Jake Wallman, Providence College grad, a really good player. He's got a year left on his contract. He's not a rent. So that's an upgrade. So I think they, the upgrade, I think they got better. You know, the big, the throw him rocks at him for not upgrading the goal. But I said this last week, I believe in Stuart's, you know, I don't think they needed to get a goal.

He was great last night, by the way, he was, he was first star last night for the admin. As much as I've been critical at times, you got it. Like when they, when he plays great, you got it, you got to note it. And I thought Stuart Skinner was outstanding last night. Yeah. And you know what, Jeff, a lot of people like to say, I said this, I said this. I don't like it.

I told you so, but I said a week ago on this show or one other one I did. I said, they don't need a goaltender. They can rely on Stuart Skinner. I said that. So I'm going to, I don't say I told you so very often, but I told you so. The pat on your back. You know what they say about Pat?

This guy, I believe in Stuart Skinner. If he gets yelled tomorrow night, I won't say it differently. I believe in Stuart Skinner. Here's the scary thing though. This thing, it's the same thing every year for me with Skinner because you look at last year's playoffs, he was excellent. But then regular season, there are those stretches where you say to yourself,

ah, can we just cross our fingers and hope that he's the same guy in the playoffs? Like you look at some of the stretches, the regular season and say like, oh man, they need to do something. And then the playoffs start and all of a sudden he turns into the ghost of Terry Sawchuck. I'm like, who is this guy? Yeah, no, they need a new, new approach from the goal-tenning coach. Not a new goalie coach. A goalie coach is excellent.

They just need a new approach maybe on when he plays, when he doesn't play, when he hits a day off, when he doesn't. Change the rotation up a little bit. Yeah, people have pointed out in the chat as well, Fairby and Frost were Calgary's moves that they made some weeks ago, Pelche and Kuzmenko going to the Philadelphia Flyers. Kuzmenko sent today to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the first deals of the day.

All right, Winnipeg Jets. Kevin Sheveldeoff, as we've said before, has one of, if not maybe the toughest job as a GM in the NHL. Yet he gets players and he gets players to commit to term and it's a competitive team. You can make the argument It's the best regular season team in the league right now Although I still don't know anyone

Who's putting their hand up when I say who thinks the Winnipeg Jets are gonna win the Stanley Cup? They bring in Luke Shen. They bring in Brandon Tanev as well your thoughts on Chevy's Brandon Tanev as well. Your thoughts on Chevy's deadline moves? Well I still think that the Stanley Cup champions probably gonna come from the East so I won't put my hand up. I'll put my hand up as far as when I've been getting into the conference final. I believe in this team. They've been in first place from the get-go. They got better. They've added players that make them better. Luke Shen's a wonderful addition for me. Gives them some bite and some leadership. Um, but then this is a well coached, well drilled veteran team that knows how to

win. They didn't get good goal setting last year. I think they will this year from counter Albuquerque and there'd be trouble for me. Uh, the St. Louis Blues are only two points. So I'm going to get back to Canada here, but I want to make sure to get this in because you know, Doug Armstrong, um, uh, certainly for a long time. Are you surprised that Army didn't really do much?

That here's St. Louis in the thick of things and they're right there. And why not St. Louis? Yet there was no, we all wondered about, you know, Braden Chen, for example. And they got Colton Pareko who's out for a while, but your thoughts on the St. Louis Blues, like only a couple of points out. No, it's a silent day slash night for Army.

I believe that they were looking hard at moving a bunch of players and then they won five in a row or five out of six. And all of a sudden they're back in the hunt. I think that's what changed their thinking. And I think you have to, I said this a week ago, you have to respond to your team, so you say, well, I'm thinking of selling, then you win six in a row. Guess what? You might have to change your mind.

And I'd gone back into contention in St. Louis and the GM has responded appropriately. He said, okay, maybe this group's good enough. I'll leave it alone. So I liked that. I liked the flexibility. I think he was ready to sell five or six assets going into the deadline. Yeah.

Um, I want to, uh, get, get to the Maple Leafs here a little bit more in depth in a second, but your, your thoughts on the Montreal Canadians. I mean, this is in some ways this recent run where they've got themselves into the mix here. And boys, Nick Suzuki, ever since the four nations, Nick Suzuki is playing a whole different game, you know, last check was like 13 points

in five games for, for Suzuki. He's been fantastic. Um, maybe new ground here for Kent Hughes, GM of the Montreal Canadiens. What do we do? How much do we reward? How much do we just stand Pat? Slavkovsky is developing, Caulfield is developing. How much do we just leave this thing alone right now? Your thoughts on what Montreal did or more pacifically in the Atlantic didn't do? Yeah I think exactly what you said Jeff. I think they looked at it and said just like just like Army said they had a real good stretch to meet up a bunch of ground got back in contention then stumble now they're back sprinting

again. Liony's been good you mentioned the other guys all been good and Slavkowski's had a rebirth I I mean, in Nick Suzuki, both are playing the best hockey they played. So they look like a different team. They look good enough to make the playoffs. They don't do anything. But I think the expectation or the, the caution was with, with, uh, the GM is, Hey, we look good right now. We're going to stand path.

But that's, we're not going to do any stupid and add to it either. Let me, uh, let me close with a quick conversation about the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now you've known Brad Treliving for a long time. Um, there is a lot of hurry up and do something all week long from Maple Leafs fans. You know, going back last week, look, Florida made a big move and then Tampa makes a move.

And like, there's a whole lot of like, Brad, do something, do something. The thing that we know about Brad True Living is, and you know this better than most, he's in on everything. Brad True Living, there are a few managers out there that use their phone and work it more than Brad True Living. Like when you look at gold, that you look at GMs that know the marketplace.

True Living's right up there around the top. Does any of this surprise you from Brad? Or is this like, this is the Brad True Living that you've at GMs that know the marketplace. True Living's right up there around the top. Does any of this surprise you from Brad? Or is this like, this is the Brad True Living that you've always known, and how good do you think his team is? Well, I think his team is really good. I think they got a lot better. I'm not sure they're good enough to beat Florida or Tampa,

but I think that's why finishing first could be critical. You could change those odds dramatically by one team beating the other one up and advancing. I like what he's done. He's a real sharp guy. Like you said, Jeff, he follows everything. He's a compulsive guy that way. He knows everything that's happening.

Most CMs do. Most try to know at least 90%. But Brad seems to know all 31 other teams, what they're doing and why. Minor league operations, everything. He's very tuned in. I think he would have quietly worked this trade on Carlo. I had a, it was no, no to-do about it, no fanfare about it. He probably would just went in early and said, look, I think this trade's gonna materialize by the deadline. Here's what we do for Carlo. We'll overpay a little bit because everyone did today. But that's the guy we want and I think he did a real quiet, good job.

You didn't hear Carlo's name once until he ended up going there. Yeah, real quiet. Lamarillo-esque, some might say. Two things, Berkey, what are you doing this weekend and how many cups was that again? One cup. I'm going to the PW game on Sunday. Nice mean, I see the Leafs are away, but I've got a San Patrick's Day Parade ball as a former grand marshal. That's tomorrow and then Sunday, I'm going to the PW game, excited. That's going to be a big night for the Scepters last night over Montreal.

Scepters look fantastic. Yeah, they played really well. They really have recently too. All right, Berkey, thanks as always for stopping by. We'll talk to you in seven days. An exciting trade deadline has now come and gone, as has Brian Burke. Thanks pal, we'll talk in seven days.

And I checked, thanks. Okay, let me level with you here. Zach, you be part of this conversation. Everybody in the chat, everybody listening, everybody watching. Do you have a person in your life who always says the same thing over and over and over again and every single time it's funny? For me, Berkey's got a couple of them.

When we used to do TV together, it used to be me and Elliot and Berkey. It was a Wednesday night sports net package and Matt Marstrom was our producer and at the end of every single show as we are all walking out together, Brian would say the exact same thing and it would always make all of us laugh. He'd always say, good job Jeff, good job Marzi. And we would all laugh. Don't know why he'd do it every week. It was like clockwork. It was absolute clockwork and we would all laugh. So every time Berkey comes in with the, I checked with the league again, I called this morning Jeff, they're only awarding one cup again this year I had so laugh every single time every I don't think I have any of those but not friends like that to say the same thing people in the chat

I'm sure do people listening right now on your various pod pod platforms or watching on YouTube probably have someone in their life you know I never mentioned this to you about Berkey. He confirmed this to me, that confirmed like this is some like big report. He, he agreed with me on this one. So all those years we worked television together and then I remember I came to work one day and Berkey sat me down and said, we're not, we can't announce it yet but I'm going to Pittsburgh. I mean, he got the Penguin's job with, with Hexdoll. And I remember saying to him, like, Brian, can I be honest with you about something? I always felt that at the end of every shift, right?

At the end of every show that I did with Brian, we'd do sometimes double headers, sometimes only single games, sometimes regional games. I said, I always got the sense that as someone who's a manager and someone who's a competitor and has always wanted to be, to have skin in the game, I kind of always felt that you didn't like going home not giving a shit who won or lost a hockey game because that's what it's like. It just, it's just a game. And he goes, to be honest with you, yeah, I hate it. I hated leaving the set and not caring

who won between like, you know, Montreal and Minnesota or Toronto and Boston. I hated not caring or not either being really happy or really pissed off. He was like, you know, that's kind of how I've always lived. I'm either happy that we won or pissed off that we lost. And I'm like, yeah, cause I always got that sense. You left and you're just like, it sucks not to care.

Who won a hockey game? You know that, you live and die with Big Blue. Yeah, I know. That's like, the more I've done media stuff here and it's kind of being like quick and thrown into some of the stuff fast. But like I've gotten to a point where, you know, I feel like I'm always aware of what's going on

in the league and have a good pulse of things, but at the end of the day, I always want the Leafs to win. And I listen to a lot of reporters and stuff and journalists and they talk, but ah, no, no, I don't care. I don't have a favorite team. I'm not a fan. I always wondered to myself, I don't know, I mean, I know you did when you were a kid

have teams that you cheered for. I don't know. Like how it is for you here now, just given where you're at, life, career, all that kind of stuff. But I just kind of wonder how it gets to that. I'm not saying it won't get there for me. I do think I will always be a Leafs fan,

a psychopath, like at heart, but it's just something I look at. I'm like every day I live and die by the Leafs. Okay, so one thing, Nick Hout in the chat, Jeff ranting about good goal will always be funny. I will never let that die. And Wes McCauley called goal the other day. Goal the other day.

And I was like, yeah. I think I even tweeted it out, like, we have a goal. Because this is like, rrrr. Okay, so two things. One, I don't really care who wins. I cheer for people. Like I want people that I know and like and stories that I care about.

Like I want those people to do well, whether they're players or whether they're coaches or managers or Zamboni drivers or peanut vendors. Like I care for people more than I care for teams. But I am in a very privileged position because I do have a replacement because I have kids that play. So those are the games that I cheer at.

So I trust me. That's fair. I get it. Like I get that fix. I get that emotion. Like I can always look at you after a make-belief loss. Like, I don't know, pick one. Let's see Philly's reaction. Maybe San Jose.

Maybe Vegas. And I can say to myself, you know, I'll watch you on your show and I'm like, fuck Philly, do you get this mad when you vote? Like, you get this upset. When you go to decide, like the leaders of our country, do you get this upset, Philly? It's a hockey game. But I do get my fix with kids hockey. So I will say that. Oh, look at Stephen Ellis in the chat. Jeff, Mexico versus Iceland, U18 hockey tonight. Who are you picking? Yeah, Ellis, whoever you say I should.

Jeff, you also had Jeff on the train for Kazakhstan. Yeah, I just read that one, sorry. At the World Juniors. That's true. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one.

I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. I'm not sure I'm gonna be picking that one. 18 hockey tonight who you picking yeah Alice whoever you say I should yeah you also had Jeff I just read the world juniors that's true yeah that is true

what anything else specifically that jumped out at you today from from what was it really like you know what trade deadline the last few years kind of been a clunker not today because I always go to trade line it's like all the trades are all done and this is gonna be like a popcorn fart it's gonna be like nothing here we go and then BAM today was just awesome trade after trade after trade I can't tell you how many times I've sat on a set you know it's been like Merrick is like half top of my head and half thumbs doing nothing no today was good it exciting. I think ranting in the mystery around all of that leading into today made it a lot

more. I would have been like honestly, I would have been kind of pissed if that Elliot tweet last night followed through and it was like we've got an extension with me go ranching because he started off hearing some talks last night. I see it before I go to bed. I'm like, come on man, don't do this to me. Tomorrow's just gonna be nothing. So I think that led into it. You said off the top, it's hard to announce

winners and losers and just getting the best players. I agree with that and sometimes, we just did, just before you came on here, I was on the Leaf Show and we were talking about the Leafs deadline and we were live when Marshawn goes to Florida and all three of us basically sat there and went like no come on we can't escape this guy and but then we talking about you know how do you fit these guys in and Berkey brought it up I do have a loser for you though it's one team that I'm gonna say is a loser you can disagree that's fine but I definitively

have a loser I had a little bit of a rant about them earlier in the week. It's the Buffalo Sabres. That trade, I just look, you know what? We can say all we want about Dylan Cousins and he wasn't working there or they gave up on him, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's fine. Say what you will. I still have faith in Dylan Cousins and maybe it gets proven wrong and it doesn't pan out. And that's the case. And I come back here on the show and say, hand up, I was wrong. I don't think I will be on this one just based on character of the guy and what we've seen out of him early. Now, the piece that becomes much, much more confusing is, okay, the return. Yeah, I also don't get that. Like, I have concern that if Josh

Norris gets sneezed on he might be injured again here but the piece that's most confusing to me is this is a team you're competing with Jeff you're trying to make the Stanley Cup playoffs it's like a direct rival like no offense to Buffalo and Ottawa right now they're not in the same realm as Tampa Florida Toronto they're just not and I think everybody knows that I think people in Like, no offense to Buffalo and Ottawa right now. They're not in the same realm as Tampa, Florida, Toronto. They're just not. And I think everybody knows that. I think people in those cities know that.

This is unbelievably confusing to me that this deal goes down with the team you're fighting against to make the playoffs. This year, next year, and within the entire time. Don't disagree. Dylan Cousins is a part of the Ottawa Senators. I think that was a clear loser today for me. You go up the gut Tim Stutzela and Dylan Cousins all of a sudden. I know he's having like Dylan

Cousins is I know like he's like the poster child of what's wrong with the Buffalo Sabres but there is one element that I've always maintained about Dylan Cousins and other players on that roster and that is got to the NHL too soon. Not enough time in the, not enough time in the American hockey league. Like that's the story of that. That is the story of the Buffalo Sabres and players being slotted out of their slot. Now Josh Norris, I really want to do well. Like remember that second I go, I talked about play, I cheer for players

and don't cheer for teams necessarily. Because honestly, like you can't be mad at Josh Norris. Like that's the thing I hear Buffalo Sabres fans and we don't say like they're all pissed off and like oh I don't want this guy and he's injury prone and all the three shoulder surgeries and all this. You know you're Josh Norris and you're like like you think I chose this? You think I chose these injuries? Yeah. Like I want nothing more than Josh Norris to be successful and I want Josh Norris to help the Buffalo Sabres turn into a respectable and consistent

playoff team. You talk about like teams that I cheered for when I was a kid. Buffalo Sabres were like, it was Buffalo Sabres that were trying to make Leaps because those were the games that we got. Like we didn't have like the million channel universe when I was a kid. I saw Sabres and I saw Leafs and whoever they were playing. And I hope that Josh Norris helps lead the Buffalo Sabres out of this fog of hockey and into the playoffs one day. Do I think it's gonna happen? No.

But he's someone that I would cheer for, that I wanna do well, because it's gotta suck. It has to just absolutely suck being a player. This is why I love Robbie Fabry so much. It must absolutely suck knowing how good you are and then you're never healthy enough to show it. That's why I love like injured players who always, doesn't matter what, never throw in the towel. Like we're supposed to be celebrating these guys. We're supposed to love these guys. That's why I love Peter Forsberg right up until the end. Remember everybody's like, oh you're

diminishing how we feel about Peter Forsberg and you're dimming your star and leave the stage while they're still clapping. I was like, we're supposed to celebrate guys that won't quit. Peter Forsberg is playing for like Nichols and Dimes trying to find a boot that fits on this wonky foot of his just so we can play hockey again.

One of the best players we've ever seen, the first ever Swedish power forward in the NHL and we're knocking him for, oh well he's not the same guy that he was in Colorado so he should hang him up. Screw that man. That's why I would cheer for a guy like Josh Norris. Do I think it's gonna work out for Buffalo? No. But that's my head. But my heart says, yeah I really want it to work out. I really do. Yeah. But I looked at that and the other thing, where's the second round pick come from? How? You know, I remember, I remember, I don't want to say the name of the player, but I

remember one, how am I going to phrase this? I remember one agent that I talked to whose client had just signed an eight year deal with the team and in the year that there could have been a lockout, he got his full salary, the majority of it bonus. Essentially he got lockout protection. And I remember I asked him, I said, how did you get that much lockout protection? He goes, you'll never guess. I go, no I won't. How'd you get it? He go no I won't how'd you get it he goes I asked okay and they just gave it to you like yep was it even a bunch of a conversation we get

that you're in bonuses sure like okay like where does the second round pick come from where's the second round pick Peck, Cousins, Gilbert and a second! Yeah. I, uh, I mean I'm beside myself. I don't know. What? I don't know. Like, I don't know. It's the fact that that trade happened and then seeing those pieces. Okay. Did you happen to see by the way what the return for Marchand is? No, I haven't. No, I've been, I've been talking. What is it? It is a 2027.

Second round pick and, and there's, there's, there's more Zach. You're going to, you're going to tell me more. No, there's more information dribbling in here. No, that's Elliot Twitter CJ drags. No? That's Elliot, Twitter, CJ, Draggs? No? No? No. No.

Say it again in case you just might have stuttered. What is it again? Brad Marchand was traded for a 2027 second round pick. Yeah. Yeah. second round pick Yeah, yeah, you know there's a there's an old saying He robbed the bank and didn't have to wear a mask And that's in the division that's not like we sent him to the Western Conference. So I have two theories.

So one was actually, and I think it'll be okay, that was proposed to me by Stephen. And he said, wonder if Marshawn is a walking corpse after Four Nations. The other theory I have, and I don't know, maybe neither of these are the case, but the other theory I have, and I wonder how often this happens between GMs. Yeah, I scratch your back, you scratch mine. You wanted Brad Marshawn. He's the UFA at the end of the season. Here's Brad Marshawn for nothing, but now something will come back. It's just not announced in this but something will come back. I don't know I have no idea how often that happens or if it does at all. It's been long enough now

That I can say this Mike Keenan once told me in the Denny Savard Chris Cellios trade Both managers signed off on it Chicago's signed off on it. Chicago's signed off on it. And Serge went to his owner and his owner said, we still need something more. Get me a second round pick. And Serge essentially said like,

no, we've done the deal. But I'll tell you what, I'll go back to him and we'll talk. And Keenan said, he talked to Serge and he's like, look, my owner signed off on this. Like we have to do this, but we're going to make another deal and I'm going to attach a second round pick to it. But you know what the problem was? Before they're able to make that deal, both of them got fired. So Habs fans out there technically the Chicago Blackhawks still owe you a second round pick and that's from my game of the serve Savard. Time to cash in. Cash in. Kent Hughes called Kyle Davidson now.

Where's my pick from the Savard-Celios trade? I want that now. He's using this clip and he's calling both of them and they're all forgetting on his end altogether. Send this one to Montreal. Mike, Mike, tell them what they said. Mike Keenan told Merrick, like, so where's our Kyle? Make with the pick now, let's go.

Yeah, yeah. All right. Yeah, Shay Weber also got traded today, by the way, blockbuster deal, Shay Weber. Yeah, I saw that. I was like, what? What do you mean? I know. And then I realized, yeah, never mind.

Yeah. Exciting day today, Jeff. It was a really exciting day, but we're not done. We still have a little bit of business. Our friends at FanDuel would like to remind you that FanDuel is proud to connect fans to the major sports moments that matter to them. Roster updates from Daily Face Offs, Fantasy, Twitter, slash Xfeed. We do have six games tonight. By the way, are you one of those people?

I know my friend Rachel Dory, who actually broke the Fraser Minton part of the Maple Leafs branding carlotray. Congrats Rach. She maintains that there should be no games on Hall of Fame induction night and on trade deadline. I disagree vehemently, but what say you? Okay. So I pitched this actually. The Hall of Fame night, by the way, I just disagree with that. I don't know. I think that that one's fine. I think it's good as is. The deadline, the only reason I had this idea,

and it's not that I don't think that there should be games, but if the NHL wants to really make this a day, really make this a thing, I think which really ruins your day my day Everyone else involved in this just shut up now. Maybe shut up now good time to stop the right time Shut up is right now. It's always a good time to shut up Zach It's always a good time to shut up the deadline is like 8 p.m. Eastern time. Oh my god. What are you doing? What's wrong with and you've got you've got what Merrick on the phone at the desk, on his computer, camera cuts, everyone's dialed in watching. Yeah the one thing that I've pitched to the NHL

previous is much like the draft you do trade deadline everybody's in the same room and you lay it out in an arena with 32 tables and so the TV is actually you can see GMs walking from table to table, talking to one another. Because you know what it's like when you get people physically in the same, now GMs will hate that like, get bent, Merrick, like no chance. You're eating space cake, get out of here. Not a freaking chance we're going to do that.

But just like to make a TV event, what would that, you tell me you wouldn't be tuned into that? It would be stupid, Colin. It would be dumb comments like, oh look, Kent Hughes has walked over, he's talking to Kyle Dubas. One of the funniest things I ever saw the draft, by the way, was one general manager holding cigarettes over the other one while he jumped up to try to grab them. Did I ever tell you that story? When I write my book, I'll tell you who the GMs are it's funny they're holding three cigarettes off. Give me that. F you, F you, give me that. Yeah. See you at HL. No, Merrick, that's what I need though. This is, just imagine this like,

I'm getting word. Kyle Dubas has left his table. Looks like he's gone over to see Brad Tree Living. Jeff, what do you make of this? As we know, Kyle was formerly the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Bradstreet Living, currently the GM. What could be going on at that table? Well, Zach, I think the 2026 first overall first round pick might be in play here. I know it's hilarious. It would be awesome. But tell me you wouldn't watch that. Just to watch all the sidebars, the discussions and watch someone go over to like, to file with with with Central Registry when there's a trade. Like, come on. Like you wouldn't find that. Just to watch all the sidebars, the discussions and watch someone go over to like to file with with with central registry when there's a tree like come on like you wouldn't find that. Could you imagine a lineup at the table like just some guy sitting at like a pop up like plastic table and it's just like tree living sitting there. He's got papers in his hands. He's next to Don Sweeney because they're going up to file this trade together. We're filing first. Beat it. Get back there, Brad.

Daily dollar short. Get to the back of the line. It would be good TV. But otherwise, I'll say like Deadline ends at three. Play the game. So I don't care. It's exciting. It's fun. But if you're trying to make it a TV spectacle, yeah, get rid of the games. Extend this thing out. Winnipeg faces off against New Jersey tonight at the Prudential Center, the big story involving the New Jersey Devil surrounds.

Daniel Sprong. Bingo, is that you want gold, baby. Jack Hughes goes out, no problem. We got one, shiny, slightly dented, slightly bruised, slightly old, slightly used. Daniel Sprong from Coachella, ladies and gentlemen, big Seattle, New Jersey trade there. Detroit and Washington, a Capital One arena. there. Detroit and Washington a capital one arena, Utah Chicago will face off

against one another. Minnesota faces off against Vancouver. Brock Besser with the Vancouver Canucks despite protestations from his general manager who proclaimed quite publicly that you wouldn't believe the returns that he was getting for Brock Besser. By the way, I agree with you here. And now go get him Brock. Go get him Playoff Spot. Go get him Brocky. Go fight for your team Brock.

Show support from the GM. Also, even if it wasn't what you were saying, by the way, I agree with you. This is... Why would you say this? You think this makes the fans happy? Ooh, Brock Bester's worth a lot. We didn't trade him. They're like watching all these other guys get flipped for like massive holes and Alvion's like, you should have heard what we got off. I didn't pull the trigger though. Don't worry, Canucks fans. Our guy, he's worth a lot. Even if that was what you're saying.

Like, no, don't say that. Why would you say that? Again, what do we say? It's always a good time to shut up. I learned that early in my career. Like, no, don't don't say that. Why would you say that? Again, what do we say? It's always, it's always a good time to shut up. I learned that early in my career. It's always a good time to shut up. I have never taken that advice. Uh, so Minnesota, Vancouver tonight, uh, Pittsburgh faces off against Vegas, St.

Louis takes on the Anaheim ducks. That is your Friday night trade deadline has come and gone. These are your teams. You've chosen your fighter, your armies have been put together, and now it's the sprint to the playoffs. Again, if you just look at trade deadline day, it'll be Dallas and Florida, but we know very well,

it's not gonna be Dallas and Florida. It might be Dallas and it might be Florida, but it probably won't be that combination because that's just not the way things work. And maybe by the end of it, Zach, we'll look back at this trade deadline and say, you know what, it was the Charlie coil piece that won the Stanley cup. You know what I'm saying? That it's not going to be the Brock Nelson, but it'll be the Charlie coil.

Or it might be, it won't be, it won't be the, uh, it'll be the Charlie Coyle. Or it might be, it won't be the Mikko Rantanen, it'll be the, oh man, Michael Grandlin had a hell of a run. Yeah. Right? Yeah, that's also true, yeah. That's how these things work. It's like with the HBK line, remember, in Pittsburgh that year.

Those guys were so good, so good. Bonino, Bonino, Bonino, Bonino, Bonino, Bonino, Cardinal Ryan Singh. Oh, Carnarion Singh. Oh, what a great call. Forever. Okay, listen, thanks to everybody in the chat. Zach, thanks to you and it was a busy day for you, both behind the scenes and on the air.

Well done. Take the rest of the week off. All right, take the rest of the week off. Yep, thanks. Appreciate it. No problem. I'm just that nice of a guy. All seven hours of it.

Yeah, I'm that nice of a guy. Are you going to have, is it date Yeah, I'm that nice of a guy. Is it date night tonight or was that last night for you guys? It is actually my sister's birthday. So we're going to, you know, medieval times. You know what that is? We're going as a family. I've got kids. You asked me if I know medieval times. Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah.

I've never been, so going tonight, family's going. Oh, it's fun. Family's going. Yeah. It's fun. Last night I was on call. When I went there, read one. Yeah. Read one when I went there for one of my kids' birthday parties. Okay. It's fun, dude. Go and have a good time. I will report back. Yeah. I'll report back. Have something on my desk by 9 AM, Monday morning. I want a full medieval review. Yeah, I will. I will. Alright. Thanks to everyone in the chat taking part. Thanks to everyone who watched all's Trade Deadline coverage at Daily Face Off.

Thank you, thank you. The programming continues and all through the weekend and next week as well. And it all kicks off with Morning Cup of Hockey. Man, Laz was great on the show today, wasn't he? That guy is getting so good so fast. Him and Colby Cohen. We'll see if he's back on Monday but nonetheless Morning Cup of Hockey will be back to kick off next week's programming at 9 o'clock Eastern right here at our daily face-off YouTube channel. Congrats to

everyone involved in a full day. Listen, days like this are beasts. They absolutely are and I've seen firsthand just how much goes into them, how much planning, how much execution, how much execution, how much fixing things on the fly to make things look seamless and make things run smoothly. I've seen it happen before at a lot of different shops. When I worked at Sportsnet, when I worked at CBC, we even did one when I was working a chorus for radio. Like I know what goes into these things. Bravo to all everybody involved. I hope you got what you wanted whether you're a rebuilding team whether

you're a Stanley Cup contender or whether you're starting things all from scratch or you're in that mushy middle just hoping you can stay healthy and go on a run. Best of luck to your team. I hope you all win the Stanley Cup. But as Brian Burke reminded us again today, he called the league, but still only awarding one, Stanley Cup. Enjoy your weekend. Back next week for the show. Every day this week, every day this month I can't get out my head Lost all ambitions day to day Guess I can call it a rut

I went to the dark man He tried to give me a little medicine I'm like, nah man, that's fine I'm not against those methods, but I knew It's me, myself and others gonna be fixing my mind I do wanna break it I turned on the music I do wanna break it

I turned on the music It's turned up, down, down Sometimes losing Helping on the days that went wrong Hey hockey fans, Tyle Remczuk here and you're gonna want to mark your calendars because you do not want to miss the most exciting day of the NHL season. The daily face-off Deadline Special is coming your way once again on March 7th from 11am to 4pm Eastern. We're going to be live and breaking down every single move as it happens in real time. I'll be joined by the Daily

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