The Sheet with Jeff Marek - NHL Global Series Announcement & Sam Carrick Joins the Show ft. David Pagnotta

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Jeff Marek is back with another packed episode of The Sheet, breaking down some of the biggest storylines around the NHL following the trade deadline and the league’s latest international announcement. First, Jeff is joined by NHL insider David Pagnotta to take a deeper look at the aftermath of the NHL Trade Deadline, discussing the moves teams made, the deals that didn’t happen, and what it all means for contenders and rebuilding clubs as the 2025-26 NHL season pushes toward the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The conversation also touches on the NHL Global Series announcement, what it means for the league’s international growth, and how events like these continue to expand the NHL’s presence around the world.Later in the show, newly acquired Buffalo Sabres forward Sam Carrick joins Jeff to talk about his recent trade to Buffalo, his first impressions of the Sabres organization, adjusting to a new locker room mid-season, and what he hopes to bring to the team down the stretch. Carrick also shares insight into the transition that comes with being traded during the NHL season and what the opportunity in Buffalo means for him moving forward.From trade deadline analysis to league news and player insight, this episode of The Sheet covers the latest around the NHL, Buffalo Sabres, NHL trades, and the push toward the Stanley Cup Playoffs.Subscribe to the channel for more daily NHL coverage, interviews with players and insiders, and in-depth hockey discussion.#NHL #TheSheet #JeffMarek #DavidPagnotta #SamCarrick #BuffaloSabres #NHLTradeDeadline #NHLTrades #StanleyCupPlayoffs #Hockey #NHLNews #Sabres #NHLGlobalSeries #HockeyPodcastLeave a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheSheetEmail us: [e-mail] TO OUR SPONSORS!!👍🏼 Fan Duel: https://www.fanduel.com/👍🏼Uber Eats: https://www.ubereats.com/caReach 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.

The knee heard around the world, courtesy of Radco Gudis, will be the, um, will be something we spend a lot of time with here today on the program. Welcome to the sheet for this Friday, March 13th. Glad to have you aboard today. Um, it's going to be a fun one, especially coming up at the bottom of the hour, but even before we get there and Sam Carrick, we have Dave Paniotas standing by DFO insider here. And we're going to get to Dave in a couple of seconds because, uh, a lot of stuff to get into.

And, you know, last night between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Anaheim Ducks, of course, Flashpoint Moment, Radco Gutis. His left leg meets right knee of Austin Matthews. There will be a hearing today for Radco Gudis and the NHL's Department of Player Safety. It is not in person. It is over the phone. So we're looking at less than five games here on this one. Coming up on the program today, the blueprint is powered by Fanduel.

Download the app today and play your game on Fanduel. Coming up in a couple of moments here, the star of our trade deadline coverage was Dave Panyoda. he returned seven days later for a look back and a look forward as well. We'll talk about Schmaltz extending with Utah. We'll talk about the NHL Global Series. Want to get Dave's thoughts as well. I want to get Dave's thoughts as well on the Radko Gudis incident. Sam Carrick, and I just got a note here.

He's going to join us at the bottom of the Arab Bar practice went a little bit long. So we're going to push him to 45. There we go. Just send a note. Yep, that's all good. we're just going to produce on the fly here on this program. Folks, we'll talk about his trade to the Buffalo Sabres. The mood around the swords, their winning street coming to an end yesterday at the hands of the Washington Capitals.

But up until then, what a great run for the Buffalo Sabres. So we'll talk about that with Sam Kerrick coming up at the bottom of the hour. In the meantime, the emerging star from Trade Deadline, is Dave Panyoda, DFO Insider from the fourth period, who I believe is standing by and joins me now. How long does it normally take you to recover after a day like that where you're working your thumbs and working your tongue on the air and working your brain all day long? Yeah. I enjoyed a very quiet weekend. It was, yeah.

A couple days going into Monday was nice and pleasant and calming and quiet and recharge and all that. So, yeah, I enjoyed the weekend off. Okay, you're back into the swamp this week, though. right back into the mud, right back into the rumors, right back into the, all of it right now. And before we get to, and I want to get an update on Alex Tucker, if there is one, Sam Carrick, his teammate with the Buffalo Sea, was coming up on the program a little bit later on. Your thoughts on what we saw yesterday, Toronto May beliefs, Anaheim Doc, second period, Radcoe Gutus, this isn't new.

Like, no one should be surprised. Nobody should feign outrage here. Radco Goodos and Austin Matthews, need-to-knee, Austin leaves. there's a hearing today, not in person, the DOPS, and Radko Gudis, just having a look at the hit here. I mean, you have to squint really, really hard to not see something significantly wrong with this incident, although the one thing that people have picked up on here,

and I want to get your thoughts on the hit, and then the lack of follow-up from the Maple Leafs, a lot of players out there cutting their laces, man. A lot of people out there cutting their laces, man. A lot of people out there cutting their laces and just sort of skating around and saying, you're going to do something, you're going to do something? I'm not going to do something. Is you going to do something?

First of all, your thoughts on the hit, your thoughts on this not being in person, this being a phone hearing for Goudis. Yeah, a little bit surprised initially. I heard last night that it was going in this direction. Well, I don't like to hit. I think it's a little bit irresponsible the way he throws his knee out. I know everything's in the moment and this game is freaking fast. But, you know, I don't, for a veteran player like Radco Gudis, he knows better.

And I mean, I think this should have been in person or at least giving them the option because you can incline it and then still have that possibility to suspend over five games. I didn't like the hit because, again, the player delivering it knows that that's a big no-no. and even if it's even if it's in the moment, even at that high tempo pace that these guys play at, you know not to do that. And that's the biggest issue for me is the fact that it was a player like him. And by that, I mean, just a veteran player that is definitely physical that should know better.

That's why I have such a big issue with what happened. And then I have almost as equally big issue with the lack of response. Just nothing in the moment. I don't care if you didn't see it or claim to not have seen it. Your captain is down on the ice, holding his knee, typically means it was a knee shot. And I don't care if it's Radco Gudis.

You have to go in there and do something to stand up for your captain. Or, I mean, your teammate in general. But, you know, it's your captain and he's holding his knee. Something foul probably happened. So get in there. I'm not a fan of that. The thing that, and there's a couple of things here, a couple of examples that I want to raise.

And I mean, one may seem like tongue in cheek, like I'm just having a joke at something, but like it isn't as if we haven't seen Maple Leaf players have responses to the thing. If we go back to a game not too long ago against the Ottawa senators, you know, Ridley Greg fires a slap shot into an open net. Okay, well, that's fine. That got a response. Okay, my feelings are hurt, got a response.

Morgan Riley and Max Domi gets in like, okay, so he hurt your feelings, so you hounded him down and cross-checked him. Raggogutus takes a knee-on-knee at your captain and it's elevator practice. Yeah, I don't get it. And correct me if I'm wrong, didn't something happen in that game where somebody got hit before that incident happened with Greg and there was no response or was that a different game?

I might be thinking of a different game actually. I think you're right. No, I think you're right. Okay, so no risk. And then you see the response afterwards. And then we saw afterwards as the game progressed, the Leafs started to muck it up a little bit and whatnot. Okay, great.

Hang on, Easton Callen did it after a hit on Robertson and he went at Jackson Lecombe. Yeah. Yes, that's right. Hang on him. Why Easton Cowan? Again, like that, how's that bench not embarrassed? Yeah, I'm glad someone did it.

I'm glad someone did it too, but the kid. No, it shouldn't have been, you know, get, you know, Pizzettos back out there. Benny, somebody, like somebody to get in there and muck things up and you didn't do it. The thing that it really reminded me of was last year with, the Buffalo Sabres. And this to me was like the low, this, the low point

of the Buffalo Sabres season, it was Steph Mason, taking a run at Tage Thompson. Healthy run, Thompson's down. And everybody on the ice, the Buffalo Sabres, same thing.

Everyone's like looking for loose change on the ice or staring up into the crowd trying to find their parents. And Tage Thompson was on Camman's Trick podcast in the summer saying that still bothers them. Now you look at like, That Sabres team to this Sabres team right now, I mean, it's night and day.

It's night and day. But they got to that low where their star player was trucked by Steph Nason and no one did a thing about it. That's what that reminded me of. And I threw the tweet out, it's Anthony Stewart's dad, who always has the famous saying, are you a club or are you a team? And you're going to have a really hard time convincing me that that's a team. That's a club. That's 23 guys and 23 Ubers.

That ain't it. Yep. You know, Buffalo had a meeting after that. I think it was players only about what they should have done and what they didn't do. It kind of helped a little bit. I think there was another incident,

the game after a couple games after. Against Columbus. I can't remember who the defender was. Was it Jacob? Yeah. I can't remember with it. And he had to, probably had to fight Matthew Olivier. Like of all of people,

I remember. that as Columbus the next year. Yeah, I mean, and I get it. Like Toronto, it would have had to have been Goudis. And you probably would have got your clock clean, but... Do something. That's not the point. Yeah, exactly.

Get in there and do something. And we've... Look, I'm not in, you know, the least room every day, you know, for every game or for, or certainly not every practice. But I'm there enough to recognize that there is a little bit of a discussion room. And there shouldn't be. Like, there are good... And I'm not talking.

I'm not saying these are bad people or bad guys or anything like that. I know a lot of the guys are good guys. It's a good, from that perspective, they're good guys. But you've got to be, like, there's some type of disconnect there within that room. And going back to your point, Anthony says, that's quote, you know, that's, it doesn't seem like it's a team mentality. And again, if I turn around and I don't see anything and my buddy's on the floor, you know, outside and he's holding his eye. Yeah.

Something probably happened, you know? So I'm going to get involved in some, in some fashion. And then find out the facts afterwards. If my captain's on the ice holding his knee, pretty good indicator that something happened. So get in there. And pretty good indicator if the ref or the linesman is holding goodness that he's the culprit.

Get in there. And but they... Even if not... The thing about is even if not then, Because Gudis gets the punt. Okay. Got it. Right.

Send the message back. Other players on that team. Right? Like I remember we did a, we did a thing with, with Wendell Clark this year. And we went back and looked at, you know, the Marty McSoli fight from 93 in the, the Kings Maple Leaf series. And like, look, like, Marty, or Wendell kept going at Wayne. And Marty's like, enough, enough, enough.

And it didn't stop. And, you know, he went at, you know, he went. that he went at, Marty and Wendell had that great fight after the Martin McSorley elbow on Doug Gilmore. And Wendell said my problem was I shouldn't have gone after Marty. I should have gone after Wayne. Shouldn't have to win. Yep.

But. Yeah. So like what I don't understand is, okay, like your bull just got gourd. And then what's the first thing we saw at the beginning of the third period? cried to cross checks Calli Yarncroke, the face, or just below his chin. I'm like, holy smokes.

And I'm not, and I know you're not either. We're not advocating for, you know, going out there and hurting guys and knee for a knee kind of thing. But go finish your check a little harder. Send a message. Go knock a guy out. You don't have to go after the knee, but go after some of their guys. And again, no response. And it's not a matter of, you know,

Willie's not going to drop the Mids or Mo's not going to do this. These guys aren't typical aggressive fighting type of, you know, caliber players. I don't care. Go out there and get a little bit dirty and defend your teammate. They didn't do that because I don't think they have the guys to do that. There's no, like that's a big, that's a big tell for me, Jeff. Like that's a huge tell as to why this is this room, this team is in really the shambles that it's in. The thing is like, it's not a.

as if the Tampa Bay Lightning are full of killers. No, right. It's not like the Buffalo Sabers are full of killers. Like they brought in Sam Carrick. They brought in, you know, Logan Stanley. They brought in in Luke Shen, like to add some muscle to the lineup. And that certainly helps. But it's, it's not as if, you know, this is like, hey, look over there.

It's, you know, a team that has Marty, the old Oilers, right? Marty McSorley, Kevin McCulland, Don Jackson, like Dave Semencoenke. Like, it's not that at all. It's just a mentality of if someone hits our team, it doesn't matter who. How many times do you've seen in Tampa Bay Lightning game? We're the first two in the scrummer, Sorrelli and Kuturoff. Yeah. Are they killers?

Get in there. Like, I can't imagine, like, I think Barubei did a good job in holding back after the game because I can't imagine what he was feeling in that moment. Dude, his wires would have crossed, his eyes would have rolled back and rang no sale. Oh, man. Right. Like, could you just, I mean, if he was on that, if he was on the ice or on the bench or even back like, you know, Tucker Corson, those guys, like, domy, like they don't have

those caliber guys, which is for future retaliation. But to your point, the Buffaloes and the Tampa's and some of the other teams, they don't have all of those guys either. But they go out there. I'll tell you what. And they muck it up when they need to. They're thinking about it now. And this always happens.

It's the classic story. You know, when one of your guys gets run, then all of a sudden you realize, oh, yeah, maybe we need someone with a physical slant here. You know, Harry Sindh, and used to have a great line about goaltending, but it's also true about toughness.

And Harry Sindhanen used to say about goaltending, he would say, goaltending is like oxygen. I only think about it when I don't have it. And you can say the same thing about toughness. You don't think about it until you don't have it, and when you don't have it, sometimes it's really, really, really obvious. It's really, really obvious.

And that was yesterday. You know what kind of teams think about it? The ones that win. Yeah. They have those pieces. Yep. Toronto doesn't. And again, not talking about the fighters, talking about the guys with the heart on the sleeve mentality.

It's too bad. You know that Craig Ruby thought about it last night, as did, you know, Brad for Living. as did Keith Pelly as well. Like I wonder to, in a losing season like this, when it's one thing to lose, we'll end on this, we'll move along. It's one thing to lose. And I always think about, okay,

so what's happening to the brand here now? Okay, like what's happening with the Maple Leafs brand? It's another season of losing, not even going to make the playoffs this year. And then that happened. So not only is that brand a losing brand, but now that brand is getting sand kicked in its face on the beach as well.

and they're not able to do anything about it. And that's where someone like Keith Pelley comes in. Because this doesn't just affect, you know, Craig Barubi doesn't just affect Brad Trill Living. Like even something like that goes even higher where now all of a sudden everybody in that building, everybody who watched that is feeling now another different way about this team that they share for.

Not only are they losing, they get beaten up and their star players getting beaten up and no one's doing anything. They're getting embarrassed, Jeff. They're getting straight up embarrassed. Like it's a

bad look. It's a tallyate in three weeks when they play the ducks in Anaheim, it's not going to matter. You didn't do it when it was supposed to happen. That's embarrassing. And

I end the season now for them because you got another five weeks of this. Just crawl through the next end of the season here, these empty calorie games. Okay, I mentioned the Buffalo Sabres a second ago. A story you've been on all season long and sometimes no information is still information. Anything on Alex Tuck. Listen, I always think of you too because there's always a cutaway. When there's a big moment at a Buffalo Sabres game, great production.

there's always a cutaway to Alex talk as well where it's like, okay, so what's your decision now? What's your decision now? Is there an update there? Slow zoom. No. But there were some people wondering because the trade deadlines now passed

and he wasn't getting moved. That was the expectation. Would they shelf talks until after the season? I'm told no. There's been no decision on that from either side. And I don't think there's a desire to. on the player side either. I think from what I've been told, still open,

they're willing to have those discussions at any point on both sides. So they're not, you know, in some circumstances, let's focus on the playoffs. We're battling for first. That's where the focus should be. And that's probably where it is. But there's an indicator where, hey, let's, you know what, let's focus here.

We'll talk about the contract after the season. That hasn't happened with Alex Tuck. So there's still an opportunity to hammer something out before the end of the season. But conversations, I'm told, still nothing on that front progress-wise. But the only update is, again, some people were wondering about it. Not the case. They're willing to have those conversations still at any point.

Okay. So he's still available then as of right now for July 1st. Someone who's off that board is Nick Schmaltz eight times eight with Utah. Your thoughts on this one. So take him off the board now for July 1st for our bosses or listening. Yeah, thanks a lot. guys. There's something here.

Feathers. It's going to be, we're going to have to get very creative, July 1. I'm trying to learn how to juggle, Dave, and I'm working on spinning plates as well. I don't know, whatever works. We got to figure something out.

The Italian and me is going to bring out what the Italian baseball team's doing, and we'll do espresso on the fly and on the spot. We'll do it on live on the air. I love it, I love it. Which will be great. So he wanted higher eight. A.V. And because of that, Utah wanted a shorter term. And both sides compromised on getting this done. This also

happened in relative short order. So for other guys out there, this is an indicator that, yeah, you can still get something done in a matter of a couple weeks. Because originally, they had shelved conversations, in this case, prior to the Olympic break, they decided let's wait. And the message that Bill Armstrong had for Kurt Overhart was, let's just wait until the end of the season. but after the Olympics, things were rejuvenated, and it only took a couple of weeks to really hammer this out. Again, he wanted higher AV, the team wanted shorter term, so they compromise in the middle and still kind of hit the number overall

that he was hovering around, which was around the 64, 65 million, he gets 64. But he locks in there. There's no trade protection with it. The other factor in this is, well, Utah's not, I believe, a tax-free state, it is very, very low. So that, I think, also factored into the final dollar amount to. You know, Seattle's going that way. You see Washington State with their millionaires tax,

so you'd be able to take Seattle off that no state tax board as well. Changing up, but, you know, that's a little there for the cracking. Is that implemented right away? They just voted on it. I'm not, I just saw the one story. My first thought went to the NHL. Like, okay, well, take that. Take that state off the board, but haven't followed up.

That just happened two nights ago, I believe. You know, one of the things that I was talking to someone about, and this would be of interest to you specifically, was at the Buffalo, Seattle, Buffalo San Jose game last week, or a couple days ago, rather. And part of the conversations were, because, you know, Logan Stanley, it took a while for him to get his paperwork done. We think of Seattle with Bobby McMahon. And one of the things that a lot of people have been talking about is I found out from some of the conversation. someone from a Western Conference team, that they really hate the idea about doing a Friday trade deadline because government offices close as trade deadline closes. And so you can't begin any paperwork to get any of these guys over the border until Monday at the earliest.

That, you know, the idea of doing it on a Tuesday is probably better. On a Wednesday, a whatever. But some teams now are saying like, let's not do that again. Let's not have trade deadline on the Friday. We need to be able to get paperwork in and not have it sit there until Monday morning. Yeah, well, remember back in, back in the day, but even a few years ago, it was, it was always a Tuesday, I believe. Yes. Always. Yeah. And I think, I think because of just how the schedule has been the last few years with all the COVID nonsense and then last year the schedule having to change because of four nations and then. Oh, it's right. How many, how many, how many, how many days out from the beginning of the season you have traded?

Right. 100%. Right. And I think that's been a factor. And I wonder if they do put emphasis on that to bring it back. Because next season, we're having a, I guess, normal type of season schedule-wise. 84 games. 84 games.

I got two more. Yes, but. Normal-ish. Yeah. Yes. But because of it being, you know, somewhat normal. And we have All-Star back and here in New York right now, so it'll be on Long Island. it looks like there's you might be able to move that up because I think even the schedule itself will be moved up a week or two

for playoff time as well so we've got the Stanley Cup final ending you know end of of June June 23rd I think the last possible game that's going to get moved up next season and then it'll go back to the end of June the following year because of World Cup but yeah and it's a good point because yes there are teams and there are some players that have had to wait Bobby McMahon hasn't played you. Right. Yep, yeah, because the paperwork, it takes a little bit of time. And, you know, you can only rush it so much when you can't do anything on the weekend. Specifically, just what everyone understands, specifically for players who haven't played in the country they're going to, right?

If you've already played in the United States and you're a Canadian like that, that makes it that much quicker. But if you haven't done that, then you're going from a Canadian team to an American team, Casey and playing Bobby McMahon, things take a little bit longer. How would, by the way, seven days out, I want to get to the NHL Global Series here in Germany in a couple of seconds. But just I'm always curious, like, you know, we have seven days context now and a wider view and sharpening the pencil on things like what happened with St. Louis. And now do we have further thoughts on Colton Perrako and everything else happening with the St. Louis Blues, for example, who was the mystery trade for the Montreal Canadiens and Ken Hughes and all that? What were your takeaways from deadline this year? A lot of foundation.

So I even wrote about this, but I think other people are starting to realize that it seems like a lot of foundational groundwork was done for what I hope to be a busy June and July draft in July 1, not because of free agency, because of trade activity. And it wasn't just St. Louis or Utah or Seattle or Montreal or Ottawa and so on, even Toronto. It sounded like there were a lot of teams that, I mean, I even throw Pittsburgh and Philly in that. There were a lot of teams that were engaged in conversations with players with term, and I'm not talking just one year left on their deal. And a lot of that was used or seemed to have been used for, okay, let's check these boxes, and then let's get back to this after the season. Let's get back to this in June around the draft and try to figure things out.

see where our draft rankings are and how the first round plays out with lottery and where all the positioning is. And then we can reconvene on some of these discussions that involve picks and whatnot to kind of sweeten the pot for some of these deals. It wasn't a lack of trying. And we were we were all busy as heck on Friday. But it just seemed like because of how the free agent pool is lessening and how that's likely to be a trend. moving forward. Teams have now shifted towards going in this direction. And that for me was the biggest takeaway. I didn't think there was, I thought there was going to be some level of conversations. You know, last year we saw the cousins Norris trade. And I thought we'd see a couple of those

maybe in the week leading up. And I guess we kind of did with Uyghur and whatnot. But I didn't expect that level of conversation to be elevated in the manner in which it was going into deadline and on deadline day as well. And I think that's going to lead to what I, again, what I hoped to be a busy draft in July. Because remember, last year it was supposed to be, we got the Dobson trade and that was kind of it. One of the issues coming off of this one,

certainly with Colton Perrako, Tyler Myers as well, big discussion around no trades and no moves. And everyone's got a thought, everyone's got an idea. Here in Canada, there's 40 million of us. And we're all general managers, so we know how everything should go. But the first time, just for some historical context here, and this might have been the nastiest,

like the nastiest thing that I've ever seen around a no trade. So quite famously, Toronto Maple Leaf's captain, Daryl Sittler, when the Maple Leafs from Punch and Lack wanted to move off of Daryl, who had a no trade, I believe one of the first in the NHL. They wanted to trade, I think it was to Minnesota.

I'll check with Lou Nanny, because I'm curious too, Dave. I think it was to Minnesota. They were trading Daryl Sittler. Sittler. Now, he refused to waive his no trade. And so what the Maple Leafs did instead was they traded his best friend. And Lany MacDonald got moved to Colorado. So you won't move? We're going to trade him. Like, that's nasty. Like, that's some of the nastiest bit of business we've ever seen in the NHL around no trades. Oh, you won't do what we want with your no trade.

We're going to move all your friends off of this team. Now, it's the Maple Leafs and it was ridiculous. a stupid move for them and just dumb trade after dumb trade. I liked Wolf Paymont, but I'll take Lany McDonald in that deal any day of the week. That was the nastiest I saw. What did you make of just, again, like I'll just throw the floor to you. All of the drama, all the conversation around trades and waving no trades and how many teams have too many no trades. We saw this with New Jersey around Quinn Hughes, even though Tom Fitzgerald said that no trades weren't an issue around it okay. What did you make of this conversation this time around about no trades? I mean, I don't have an issue with there being no restrictions tied to, or excuse me,

limitations per teams. I think it's fine. You know, from that side of things, I think it's fully within the player's right to have it. And I think if they're going to concede on that, it's going to take one heck of a deal for the NHLPA to lay off that in the next CBA talks. Oh, yeah. It's as much, look, guys want control, right? And I think some guys are willing to explore moves, but they want to have control over where they're willing to go. Like we heard after the Pareco Buffalo situation that, okay, different scenario,

I'll wave. If you really want me out of here, fine, I'll wave, but here are my parameters. And, look, Vinnie Trocheck, he's got a limited no trade. a lot of teams are out west because he doesn't want to go west. He wants to stay east for family related purposes and whatnot. And guys have those preferences.

I don't really have an issue with it. I'm surprised a lot of these got out the way they did. Like you had a great, you and Wish had a great interview with Robert Thomas earlier this week where he admitted that the blues didn't come to him. He didn't ask for a trade and the blues didn't come to him. And a lot of these scenarios play out.

Like, guys with no trades get talked about all the time. Everybody does. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Everybody does. Thank you.

That's GM's doing their job. 100%. Yes. Exactly. And until they have a deal that they're comfortable with, they're not going to go to the player and freak them out until they feel, okay, this makes sense for our organization. Fine.

let's go to Robert Thomas. Let's go to Austin Matthews. Let's go to whomever and say, here's what's on the table right now. Yes. Take some time to think about it. That's what happened with Tyler Myers. Earlier on in this season, there were some teams that poked around on Tyler Myers, and the Canucks said, no, we're not going to go in this direction.

And as things progressed and their season blew up, obviously things changed. But they went to him, and that didn't get out for a few days. These other situations got out day of. to the point where the player just really found out. And then both guys at the time, Weger and Pareko, within half an hour it got out and their phones are blowing up. And now there's a whole other level of stress that they got to deal with. Nature of the Beast to a certain extent.

But this happens all the time. And these guys get talked about all the time. Overall, I think it's fine the way it is, to be totally honest. They know it. The players know it. Like no one goes into this. no one goes into this blind and feel, you know, blindsided about being part of a, of a conversation. Yeah.

And sometimes. I don't think Robert Thomas is naive to think like, oh, yeah, my name's not being talked about because this army never told me. No, everybody knows. Which is why, Dave, I always find, I always find sort of humorous when I see like, Philadelphia is talking to Detroit. Yeah. You can, you can tweet that every single day of the. every year. Exactly.

Yeah. Toronto's talking to Anheim. You can probably tweet that every single day of the year because that's their job, man. Yeah. The amount of guys that, you know, just on the GM side alone that I talked to that, hey, I heard something about this. Yeah, I checked in with them. It's not a fit for us.

Yeah. Okay. So I could easily put out there that team A just talked to team B. But I'd be tweeting that 24-7. Yeah. You know, which is why I really do think. I've proposed this so many different times. I'm curious what you think about this.

I don't think you and I have ever had this conversation. Trade deadline day specifically. Make it like draft. And you have an arena, pick a, pick a market, and you have 32 tables. And everything gets done on the floor, cameras on. So you see GMs walking to one table and walking to another table. And just you just, yeah, if someone doing the play by play of the whole thing and back to studio and back to the and the camera on and like, honestly, it. To me, first of what, you'll never get the GMs to sign off on them.

They didn't want to go to draft. Ever, ever, ever. But as far as they creating a TV spectacle, oh, that would be amazing. Sign me up. Like just to what, the call and the walking over. Yeah, everything. Dun, what's going on? Yeah, what are they talking about?

Oh, yeah. It was the same. Yeah, it was just like draft. And you're walking along the floor and you're trying to talk to this guy. And they're like, I can't deal with you right now. I'm dealing with something else. Like that would be amazing for Broadway. And the GM meetings are this weekend down in Florida.

You can have your trade deadline special. And then, okay, guys, now's GM meetings. And you guys, you're all in the same place. Go handle what you want. Same place. Go have your meeting. Whatever. Yeah.

That would be awesome. There's no chance because they all want, they all want their silos and they want their tiny rooms. They don't want anyone to hear what they're talking about. So alas, we can just sort of treat. By the way, what do you think of the idea? Well, we're just throwing out of it. What do you think of the idea of creating two or maybe three trade zones throughout the year

where you have a week to make trades and then they're shut down? And then in a few months there's another zone to make trades and it's only that week and then it gets shut down. There's another zone like maybe in the summer. Other than that, you're just dealing with your team and your farm system. No, no, no, no. I want the stuff going all season long all year long. Like the random trade that happens in August, and then the random one that's in November just gets everybody,

and everything circulating. Deadlines per action, Dave. Deadlines per action. I know. But to combat that, to argue against it. Yeah. Okay. We only saw what? Two trades happened before the Olympic break.

And that was supposed to be the deadline junior. And that was a deadline at one point. We only saw that, what was it? It was Bugstad and Panarin. And I thought there was going to be more. You know, so it's the ultimate deadline that they know they've got, you know, we still have runway to negotiate and everyone's a master negotiator. So give them that runway. I want it all year long, Jeff.

I was like, give me until now. And then that's it. I was, to be honest with Dave, I was kind of surprised that more teams in the East didn't try to do more, mainly because the Panthers aren't a factor. Florida's out. We think they're going to be back next year. Like no one's going to be surprised. They win the Stanley Cup next year. But Panthers are out.

Panthers are out and everyone kind of went, okay, cool. And no one really went for it. That surprised me. Because I think, like, well, I mean, some of them, like, you know, Columbus wasn't going to trade Boone Jenner and Charlie Coyle and Marchman, right?

And, and, um, I'm still surprised that Washington, um, ended up moving both those guys, Dowd and Carlson. But at that point, they were trying to do some other stuff. Like Connor McMichael's name was being tossed around a little bit. And that surprised some people.

You know, so I think teams started to gravitate more towards these bigger type of deals or maybe more complex ones. And that's where things kind of focused on. And then some teams that had rental pieces like Toronto kind of waited a little bit too long. you know, like they had a couple things on the table for Scott Lotton, and they didn't submit that trade. And I think it was like the last minute, maybe two. I think it was literally the last minute that they submitted that that trade was submitted

into the queue. You know, so like some teams just kind of waited a little bit too long to sell off some of their pieces. And I think a lot of it was happening in the East because of that. We didn't see more activity. Okay, let me close on this. Global Series announced today, well, part of it anyhow. And I mentioned this on Twitter, too.

It's something that Brian Brooks has talked about going back to when he was with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and they did an affiliation with Mannheim. And that is a sort of formalized here agreement between the National Hockey League and German ice hockey. And Berkey would always talk about how Germany is going to be the next rising power. They need to do something about their import rule. But it's at athletic culture. They've always all the – they're starting to see like individual players start to pop. And listen, now we have like, you know, Leon Dreissela and Tim Stutzler,

two the best players in the league, you know, at the highest level, both obviously from Germany. Berkey's been talking about this going back to like, I want to say the of like 2008. And now here we are with, you know, a long-term understanding and agreement between the NHL and Germany. Your thoughts? Yeah.

Well, overdue, certainly. Agreed. Yeah. And like, like, and there's, and there is some. some other type of deals with some other federations and whatnot as well. But to see Germany enter the mix in this regard, you know, the league tried doing some longer term things in other markets.

Like Australia, where they did the preseason game. Yeah. They said they're coming back. They said they're coming back, Dave. I'm still holding my, can I go to sleep now? They said they're coming back.

I haven't slept. Am I allowed to go to bed now? No, it was supposed to be three years. It was supposed to be not necessarily consecutive, but it was supposed to go. Right. It was supposed to be three times. Okay.

And then one of them was supposed to be. Calgary, Boston, China, too. Okay, sorry, go ahead. Yeah. So I think they're realizing that, okay, these one-offs are good in certain markets, but we need the bread and butter is in Europe. Yes. And to have that happen now with Germany, and they will be back.

This is, I know some people are going, well, how come it's not Edmonton and Leon? How come it's not Detroit and Mo cider and whatnot? Like, there's, they're going to be other games. They're going to be, you know, there'll be other games. And they're going to, you want to spread this out. Obviously, and you have Stutzler. So that's, you know, that's huge as part of it. But they want, they want to expand on their European footprint, which is why last year we

saw two sets of games in Europe. This coming season, in addition to Germany, there will be games in Finland as well. And that announcement should be soon. I'm not exactly sure which day, but we'll get another announcement on that. Dallas and who? Dallas and California? Yeah.

But I don't know the teams. I would imagine it's got to be the stars. But yeah, they're going back. And I'm not sure where exactly in Finland. And I think these games are going to be in November. So we've got these ones. And then as they announced Germany's in December, the games on the 18th and the 20th.

But, you know, kudos. And keep this going. keep the vibe going. And I think this is going to be a consistent thing. The one interesting thing that it was during the stadium series, had a chance to speak with Marty Walsh. And I said, where do you want to see a cool outdoor game? Where would you want to see some type of outdoor vibe?

And the first thing he said was Europe, Mannheim. Yeah. So it's not going to be this year or this coming season. But don't be surprised if we get outdoor action somewhere in Germany in the next few years. So I think about this from the NHL perspective, obviously. And also think about it from the European perspective. And the NHL is, you're right, like they're getting away from just, you know, the one-off's going to pop in real quick, pull out some cash, sell us some jerseys. And back home, check me out on Facebook.

Boom. Those days are gone. Right? They have an office in Zurich, et cetera. So it's good. They're taking Europe more seriously because to your point, like, you're right. Like, there's gold in them there hills. Like that's, there, there is opportunity there for the NHL to do something, to do something long term.

I also think about it from the European point. If you're like, okay, so here comes the NHL. What are they going to do for us here as a demonstration of their seriousness? I think this Germany thing is a good step and a positive one in the right direction. I'm curious your thoughts on this one. Someone mentioned to me, I think it was earlier on this year about we were talking about, you know, what could the NHL do as a demonstration to the market that they are serious and send a big message and create something that, to be honest with you,

would be a real spectacle and would really spread things out. Now, you'd have to buy out some home games. I understand that. But, you know, work with me on this one. How would you feel if all 32 teams opened up the NHL season in Europe? All 32 in Europe, all spread out. As a way to, first of all, creates a headline. That would be cool.

Massive headline. Yes. Creates a massive headline to a demonstration to that marketplace, like to that, to Europe that you are serious. And these are games to count here, folks. Like this is like game one for everybody in the NHL, all opening up in Europe. What do you think?

A couple of things initially. One, Steve Mayer's head just exploded. Trying to think about how to organize that. Really expensive. Yeah, very expensive. Exactly. That would take some mega sponsorship dollars in order for them to pull it off. and just from a cost side

and then trying to manufacture you're going to have to get every PR team all in sync with the NHL's PR to make sure that this that would be like yeah

yes it is like that's like years of planning just that alone it would be cool and sign me up because I would go check out a few of those games for sure I usually head over to the global series every year. I didn't this past season, but I think next year I will, or in December.

It's, and I, again, I would, I would go to a bunch of these games. You spread that out over a weekend in multiple cities. That would be really cool. But holy cow. And the other thing, too, like, you can spread it out. Like, it doesn't have to be 16 cities. You can have, you can double up games, like one in the afternoon. Sure, why not? No. You can get eight cities to pull, to, pull that off simultaneously. Afternoon game, evening game overseas. That would be pretty cool. It would be pretty cool.

All right. I like that. I like that better than the... I like that better than that trade season window thing that you suggest. I don't like that one, but this one sign me up. I'm all in. That's because you want catnip every day, not just like at three different places in the calendar. You're like, that's it.

Give me some trade talk here, 365. You're the best party. Great job again last week. And great job following up this week as well. We'll stay tuned to all your socials and everything you're writing and broadcasting to find out what's happening next. Thank, pal. Have a great weekend, Dave. You too.

Help the fort down for all of us. Oh, geez. I fake the funk. But thank you. Dave Panyoda, the start of our trade deadline from seven days ago. And the start of the NHL have been the Buffalo Sabres going back to December, even though they lost a tough one last night to the Washington Capitals. It is still a team that is making headlines. lines and turning heads.

And I was there for the game Wednesday against the San Jose Sharks. And good to see some old faces back at the Key Bank Center as well. And there's a familiar face. And it's Sam Carrick, newly acquired by the Buffalo Sabres, who joins us now. First of all, Sam, how are you today? I'm doing great. Thanks. Yeah, like you said, tough one last night.

But, you know, we're riding this wave pretty good right now. I've been here a week. And it's been a fun, fun experience. But what a week, Sam. Like, honestly, like, what a whirlwind. You get dropped into, you know, the top team in the NHL going back to December. And, you know, I was making the point before he came on about, you know, after the Austin Matthews thing last night with Radco Gudas,

we think back to Steph Nason on Tage Thompson and nobody did anything. And then I go to that Tampa game where, you know, you got Hegel chasing down Rasmus Stalline and Ukapeka Lukanin, like the goaltender is the first one to charge out. Like, it's like that. And you've been on teams like this before. I'm sure, like there's a real, we're all in this together mentality. that as someone who's followed the Buffalo Sabres since the French connection, we haven't seen a whole lot of that in Buffalo.

What does it feel like to be part of it? Yeah, I think it just goes to show you, you know, how tight-knit up our group is. We got a young, energetic group. Guys really care about each other. They love each other. And, you know, we saw it from the first shift. I think Tage got hit from behind.

And, you know, we got guys. Two guys. Automatically shedding their gloves, you know, running in there. And that just gets the juices flowing. It gets you want to get involved. And that's, you know, that game was, I think that was a good building block for us. Something that we can lean on. You know, that's the standard for sure.

You know, anytime someone tries to take advantage of someone on our team, there's going to be a price to pay. And that's our model. Where does that, like, where does it come from? Because, like, a year ago, that wasn't there. And by and large, like there's a couple of new faces. You're one of them, Logan Stanley and Luke Shen at deadline. But like, how does that happen to a collection of players,

which were pretty much identical to the ones that were there last year? Yeah, I think it probably goes hand in hand with, you know, when you're winning games, yeah, you're feeling good. The crowd's involved. You have a little bit of swagger behind you where, you know, you just want to keep riding that wave. And when you're losing, I've been through it on the other side. When you're losing, you know, you got nothing to play for.

It's March and, you know, you got the end of the season kind of circled. You're just trying to do what you can until that day. It's a little harder to stay emotionally involved. But, you know, when you're at the position where we're at right now, you know, we're in a playoff spot where we're building to, you know, be peaking going into playoffs here. that's all part of it all part of what you want to be doing to be playing your best hockey

you know well I think for a while we're going to go back to that Sunday game against the Tampa Bay Lightning and look at that as like that moment where like the game was fascinating because of course like there was all the scraps and a lot of goals and it's an 8-7 final but there was a time there where Tampa looked to be

pulling away and you look at all the commentary on social media and it's like okay Buffalo Sabres are up again this is the like, oh, this is the Tampa Bay Lightning and like, okay, this is showing you how close they are to Tampa and Tampa and Tampa Still, the big dogs, etc, et cetera, et cetera. And then you guys came back. Like, just when, like, everybody's with you and then, it's all like within one game. With you, wrote you off and then came back by the end.

I can only imagine what it was. And I know you were miced up for that one and some of that stuff was really good. I can only imagine what that emotional roller coaster was like on the bench. As best you can, can you walk us through the emotions of that game. Yeah, I mean, obviously we had a great start. We got up, I think, up to like 4-1, and we're feeling good. But I think that was one thing we could have done better was we laid off. And Tampa's is obviously a great team.

They're going to get their scoring chances and they came back. But in the third period there, you know, going into it, we knew it probably wasn't going to be the next goal that won. You know, there's probably going to be a couple goals this game just the way it was going. And whether we score, they score first, we wanted to, you know, keep it. the same mindset and obviously not ideal going down by two early there but i think there was we still had that belief that uh you know we're getting our chances and we can still come back so um credit to the guys you know we stuck with it uh i think we fed off the crowd a lot too you know anytime we we'd got in their zone the crowd was absolutely amazing and i think we uh we used that to our advantage

the crowd's been fantastic i mean it's been a real story i mean i used to go to the old odd a ton when I was a kid with my dad and then when I was at university, we could never afford Maple Leafs tickets. So, you know, we'd load up and I'll pay, you know, $10 for a ticket and go see the Sabres playing at the Memorial Auditorium. And just being there on Wednesday and seeing like faces that I haven't seen like in forever back. And like everyone's got Sabres jerseys. And it's not just like the new guys, but there's like, you know, older names. Like, hey, look, there's a, there's a Mike Pecca. There's a Joebert Perot. There's a Dominic. Like it's, for me, it's a real scene.

Like, it's, it's really cool. You're a southwestern Ontario guy as well. Did the Sabres resonate for you at all as a kid? Yeah, I mean, yeah. I mean, I do remember watching, like, guys like Mike Peckin. And I actually got to play for him last year a little bit, which was pretty cool. But, you know, Hasick as well, always being on, we used to get those Don Cherry, rock and sock him, sock him videos every Christmas.

And Don Cherry going on. about the Dominator is just engraved in my in my mind so um yeah they had some they had some fun teams for sure um obviously you know i was a least fan growing up but um i do have some buddies back and our buffalo savers fans and have been for a while so um yeah there's obviously a huge canadian fan base here which is awesome and um it's it's great to see uh just how good how rock in the building's been. Fans definitely this team right now.

And I think the guys are just feeding off all the energy. You know, the whole city of Buffalo doesn't right now. And it's just, it's just a blast to be a part of. So guys are getting off it.

You know, it's, I've always maintained, you know, Buffalo's like that kind of ultimate NHL market where it is, it's a combination of, you know, American fans and also Canadian fans of like Hamilton, St. Catharines, that'll go down. And one of the things that I love,

love about it. Not that I'm much of like, I'm not really a huge anthem guy, but I really like that even when there's two American teams playing, they play the Canadian National Anthem as a sort of tip of the hat to all the Canadian fans that have season tickets or come down to see the Buffalo Sabres. That's noticed, right, by the players? Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome. You know, we got a lot of Canadian players on our team, too, that, you know, it's just, yeah, like you said, it's so cool. It's so close to the border. A lot of Canadians come down. Obviously, with the bills being, you know, that's kind of like seems like everyone in Ontario's cheers for the bills and just really close roots here. And it's a great town, blue-collar town.

Yeah, and it couldn't be more fun to be a part of right now. Let me ask you about the trade. Did you have any idea that it was going to be Buffalo? No. I had a, I mean, I had a little bit of warning the day before the trade deadline. teams were interested. Yeah. I didn't know which teams, so it really could have been anywhere.

You know, I knew Buffalo was on my radar just because of how good they've been. And, you know, they were looking for some help in the faceoff dot. So that's something that they're looking for me to bring. And I just, yeah, I was just could have been happy when I heard Buffalo just to be close to home and be joining this, this young group that's got so much potential and so much energy. And, you know, we're looking to make, make a run here. So, yeah, it was nice to finally get that phone call and just relieved when, you know, it really could have been anywhere. But to hear Buffalo, I was pumped.

What's, whenever you get to a new team, there's usually that moment where you're like, I knew this guy was good, but I didn't know that he was that good. You know, like, I think people are getting their eyes open wide about just how good Josh is, for example, and he was great in that game against Tampa on Sunday as well. Is there a player or are there players on your team that you said, you know what, I played against them. I thought he was a good player, but I never knew he was this good. Is there someone like that for you on the Buffalo Sabres?

I would say our whole DECOR, starting with Dahlene, they are just unbelievable at breaking the puck out. It makes it so much easier as a forward. It just creates so much more offense when they can, when they're going back for a puck and they can shimmy shake the first four checker. And next thing you know, we've got numbers coming up the other. So that part's just made it so much easier to play for sure when you have those kind of weapons back there. And yeah, like you said, our forwards are extremely talented.

I can't believe some of the trades that we got some of these young guys coming in. You know, I think they've done a great job of building this team just with a lot of talent, starting with the decort up. And our goalies have been awesome too. So there's been a lot of pleasant surprises since being here, you know, considering I don't really, you know, we don't play these guys too much when I was in New York. Okay, last one for you. You mentioned family getting closer to home. What happened to mom? Well, she was at that Tampa game, and I don't know.

I looked at my phone after the game, and one of the messages was a pitcher of her ankle. and she was in a wheelchair and her ankle would look like a softball. So I guess, I don't know, you know, there was definitely some wine involved. She was probably pretty excited, you know, watching the game. It was a good one. And I don't know if she jumped up or she tripped. I don't know. She must have rolled it somehow.

So she watched the third period in a wheelchair with her feet up in an ice bag. And that's how she saw my goal, I guess. So, yes. She's on the shelf for a week here. She might be coming tomorrow. We'll see. She's day to day right now. All right.

Very good. Yeah, I know a big thing of importance for her was to watch you score. So she got to do that. And you found the back of the net yesterday against the Washington Capitals as well. Listen, man, it's great to see in a Buffalo Sabres uniform. It looks like you've worn it for years. Your team is hottest team in the NHL, man, despite the loss last night. Keep it rolling.

And we'll talk again soon, Sam. Thanks so much for doing this. Great. All right. Thanks, Jeff. Good to see you. Bye. Be good. Sam Carrick. Of the Buffalo Sabers. Goal again last night, all being a loss against the Washington Capitals. And this team still remains one of the most fun teams to watch. It's so bizarre, hey, Zach.

Like, here we were a year ago after the incident with Steph Nason and Tage Thompson. And you're saying to yourself, man, this is like the lowest, blow it all up. Everyone's got to go. Everyone's getting fired. Like start all over. over again, start at the beginning. And it's basically still the same team by and large, all the same people. There is a new general manager, of course, in Yarmou Kekalainen. But it just shows you how, I guess, in the right situation and a lot of things have to

happen right, things can't turn around and profoundly. Like, did you think for one second, if we rewind exactly one year ago, that we'd be having the conversation about how the Buffalo Sabres are the best team in the NHL? not a chance no i don't even have to go a year ago you go to the beginning of the season like go to the start of this season and watch how they like kind of measly limped their way into the opener and it was kind of like well there it is there's the continuation of last year's team there's the guys that wouldn't step up there's the guys who wouldn't fight for each other and it's night and day since then so it's crazy too

I've been talking about the Buffalo Sabres as like the example. They're the team you want to be like. They're the team you want to play like. Weird, eh? Model your, yeah, I'm throwing them in the same conversation as the Florida Panthers, the Tampa Bay Lightning and the pack mentality and everybody sticks up for everybody. And that's one year removed from other than what I just witnessed last night, you know, one of the more pathetic team moments in the NHL,

where everyone just kind of like, oh, is that guy going to do it? Because it's not going to be me. And now here we are where it's like, they're the example of what to do when things go sideways. It's so rare that when you see, and let's be honest, too, like the turnaround,

like that first win streak started before Yarmu Kekyllain and got hired. Like I think they're on a three game. It was a two game, Zach or was a three game winning streak when they swapped out general managers. and normally we think like a general manager change isn't going to affect what happens on the ice right away. But the nature of how Buffalo played really did. And I've thought a lot about it. And the one thing that I keep coming back to is all of a sudden when a new general manager comes in,

you're not your GM's guy anymore. Right? Like you were brought in by another general manager. and if you want to stay, every game's an audition. And I still think a lot of this is audition for Yarmou Kekalainen. Like I remember Pierre and I, McGuire, were having this conversation a little while ago about the Buffalo Sabres. And I said, flippantly,

while considering the whole organization is turned around, best team in the NHL, does that mean that everybody who's do a new contract in the office or the scouting staff or whatever? Does that mean they get renewed? Because all of a sudden, it's working. And he said, no. Yarmo still picks his guys.

Yarmo still picks his guys. And I know that longtime Buffalo Sabres employees might not want to hear that. And I get that it's upsetting and it's unsettling. But that's the nature of it. That's life in the big city, right? New general manager comes in. New general manager picks his crew. It sucks.

But that's the way it's going to be. It's like, in a sense, the Brandon Gallagher conversation that we just had yesterday. Oh, with Max. Hey, buddy, you were a great soldier. You just battled through the rebuild, the young guys. Now the team's good. See ya.

It's a different, you know, situation, obviously, but kind of the same conversation. In a sense. Hey, good for Buffalo. Happy to see Sam Carick as well in a Sabres uniform. You're right. I pulled up a picture a lot of times, by the way, just like a little. little inside of some of the stuff. I make the thumbnails every day, right?

Yeah, yeah. And I pull up pictures of all the players and put them on. So I put Carrick on. Sometimes I pulled up pictures, like the one that doesn't make sense to me still when I look at it or looks weird and I'll probably get better as we go through time, but Penuron in a King's uniform. It seems like Photoshop. Like it seems AI when I look at the picture.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's not to anybody else. But I look at it and I'm like, no, that's not real. Keep it moving. I pulled up the picture of Sam Carrick and it was just like, Yep, there's Sam Carrick in a Sabres uniform. Like, didn't even think anything twice about it. It just looked normal.

So it's kind of funny, you threw that out at the end. I do think, by the way, like, there are some guys, like, there are different kinds of hockey player looks. But when you look at Sam Carrick, like, he looks like a hockey player. I know that sounds stupid, but he looks like a hockey player, right? No, I know exactly what you're talking about. He is a hockey player. He looks like a hockey player. There's not really many ways.

This sounds stupid. We're on a podcast trying to describe this. There's not many ways to describe it. You look at him, you're like, you play hockey. You're a hockey player. Yeah. He, see, I feel that if you put him in any uniform, he would look like he belonged.

Because at the end of it, he just looks like a hockey player. So put him on kings, put him on sharks, put him on cats, put him on halves. he looks like there's there's like put this way there's that look of a hockey player and do you remember Mike Costka oh yeah Aurora Tiger the blonde okay okay so you remember okay yeah log blonde hair like there's that style of hockey player look too where you can put him on any team and go like yeah the guy's a hockey player yeah the guy looks right because he just looks like that vintage of hockey player there's like the Sam Carrick look of a hockey player and Mike costka look of a hockey player. And of course you pick off that he's a Roar Tiger.

Mike. Mike Costco. Wow. What a bull right there. Yeah, he was a Roar Tiger. I think they won the RBC Cup when I was watching back in the day. Oh, really? Mike Costco. Yeah, that was only used to have crazy battle of young streets with Newmarket. The building was packed. It was a cool time to go and watch. And then I remember him going from there. I remember him playing and then making the NHL. And I was young enough. He would not like to hear this. I apologize. Mike Koska in advance. You know, in Slapshot, I'm going to forget the guy's name, but he says, he's like,

if I get hit too hard tonight, I'm going to piss myself. Oh, Brophy. All I could think of. Brophy. Yeah, Nick Brophy. That was all I could think of Mike Costco with his blonde hair, crazy blonde hair coming out of his pocket. I was like, of that guy.

I'm sorry, Mike Cosca. I know that that's really not what you want to hear because that's not the best comparison. Nick Brof is a character. Yeah. Hey, he knows I'm hammered. He keeps playing me. My wife left me. I've been drunk ever since.

He knows it. He keeps playing me. Yeah. I love that. What a life. Then he gets hit and he skates off the ice like. Really slow. Looking up with the crowd.

It's the little touches. It's the little touches. Anything else we need to get to you today before you wrap up here for another week? That was a fun week, by the way. That was a good follow-up from Deadline. Yeah, it was. It was a fun week. Yeah, the only thing I wanted to shout out was the McDavid fight last night.

With Tritskovian? Yes, I believe that is his first fight in the NHL. The last one I can remember is the one in Erie. Against Mississauga. When he broke his hand. That was, oh, what's the guy's name? Yeah, he broke his hand on his head. It was right in the corner.

No, on the glass. No, I know, but like the fight, the fight took place, I think, in the corner. It was Erie and Mississauga, right? Oh, yes. I think it was an Italian kid too, right? That he was fighting?

I think. I try to get this as fast as possible. I know this is not great podcast. Sorry, everybody. No, that's okay. Let's see how fast Zach can find, like obscure junior hockey players and obscure junior hockey stats.

Bryson. Chifrony. I'm going to say last. Price and Chanfrony. Price and Chanfrony. I remember that fight. I remember that scrap. Yep.

Yes. Yeah. He broke his hand, punching the glass. He's trying to hit the poor guy. Yeah. Yeah. You don't need to do that.

But I will say last night, that was a interesting timing for me on the post game show. Not to make this about me, but I was. But I'm going to make it about me. Having my head explode about what happened. And people in the chat were like, well,

what do you want Newlander to do? he's a skill guy and while I was talking about it McDavid in real time got in a fight and then my head exploded 10x that's what I was like if he can do it you can do it what are you better than Connor McDavid now no you're not get it going after Ritzkovian's a little different than going after Radco Goudis

yeah I'm not going to disagree let's not conflate the two here like and no disservice or slight to Connor McDavid here, but I know Ritzcovian is annoying to play against, but. But grab a caller, do something. You don't have to turn around and look the other way. Bouchard was dying to get in there.

Bouchard was Dian to get in there and feed Ritzkofian too, eh? Holy Jesus. You can just see his wires crossing. Like, not on my watch. Yeah. Everybody on the ace looking going, uh-oh. Like I got to, we got to get in there. We got to do something.

Yeah. But go to McDavid. Again, yeah, was it the Radco Gudis of the Dallas Stars in terms of... Yes, Covey and no. Scariness? No, it wasn't. No, no, no. This was like jumping on Jamie Ben.

Okay. Like he was... No. Not quite. Yeah, he wasn't jumping. He wasn't jumping on like Leon Bichelle. Like, he was not doing that. He wasn't jumping on any of the big boys there.

Make no mistake about it. But still. Connor did it. Okay, we got a couple of things left here on the program. Thanks for joining us today. Anything from Dave. the way you found anything jump out at you i i mean the groundwork thing is just annoying considering we do what we do like i i i'm glad no i get it but i'm glad you did the groundwork like

give me the trades on the trade deadline do the groundwork in the summer so that the trades happen at the deadline i don't do the deck groundwork at the deadline so that they happen in the summer we're more chilled out in the summer jeff we're not doing as much you know like intense You want like no trade. You're listening to me. Give me the coverage now. One week, one week in November. You want one week in March.

And that's it. Nothing in the summer. Maybe like a trade period in the summer. And then it's like blocked off outside of that so that they build up, build up, build up. And then bang, it hits us all at once. And then we can all say thank you for the week. We'll take this one off. We'll enjoy the rest of our summers outside, the sun, the golf.

And then we'll come back at it in September. And then you can open things up like Dave wants it. So then it's a hybrid of what you. want what Dave wants and everybody kind of gets something. You had me until you got the golf. Yeah, well. What's the line about golf that you have? What's the line about golf that you have?

Best two balls I hit is when I step on a rake. Yeah, that one. That's the one. All right, let's keep going. I'm bad at golf, man. I just need severe mind. Okay, you just want to have a little laugh going into the weekend. It's tough to see you still in prison too.

That's tough one there. Yeah. Prison look. I don't know what you did. That's up to Corolli. All right. Nick Carolley, the warden? Putting it in his hands. The sheet is powered by Fanduel. Play your game with Fanduel.

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It was cheesy. I didn't think it was my best work. Yeah, yeah, it was cheesy. You know, I'm trying to, I'm trying to, in my own. own brain because I want to encourage people just to be themselves and not worry about, you know, criticism and just go, I'm trying to remove, like, don't kill the cringy part of your brain, but kill the part of your brain that cringes in the first place. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to kill the part of my brain that cringes. So I'm going to try really hard not to

cringe at anything you submit here at the end of the show every day. I'm going to try really hard to kill the part of my brain that cringes. Well, let's hope that that's working. The training that you can do undergoing here is working. All right. Because I think you're in for one here right now. But, you know, as everybody knows, it's a couple days here now where I've been into this new place and going up and down in and out of the elevator, moving things around and, you know,

trying to get the lay of the land of whatever thing that is around here. Finally have kind of bumped into the people who live next door a few different times. You know, I've seen them in the lobby. I've seen them coming in. out waiting for the elevator and Jeff. I think the one conclusion I've come to about these people is that my neighbors

must be rich because they've got a lot of designer clothing. So Jake neighbors, Calum Richie Huntre Pilots. Neighbors must be rich because they've got a lot of designer clothing.

Is that all right? Where are we at here on this one? Kill the part of your brain that cringes. Kill the part of your brain that cringes. Kill the part of your brain that cringes. That's really good.

You're trying. Thank you. Jake neighbors. Thank you. Calam Richie, Andre Palat. $5 to win $5.94. And 67 cents. Kill the party or brain that cringes. Kill it. Kill it.

Let people be who they are. Encourage people to be who they are. Don't cringe. Don't cringe. Don't cringe. Man you don't crin. Well done. Well done, Zach. Push that down.

Keep that in there. You did it. You did it. All right. Well done, sir. And they say this country has no poets. Zach Phillips, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only without a net,

Zach Phillips here on the program. Great stuff this week, partner. We will talk again on Monday where everything will be settled in your teams in Leafland, I'm sure. In the meantime, thanks to, yeah, of course. everything will be rosy. That's the funniest thing you said all show. Everything will be rosy by the time Monday rolls around.

Everything will be fine and leafland. Everything will be perfect. Thanks to Sam Kerrick for stopping by the Buffalo Sabres. A great conversation and a fun chat about his mom. We got very excited and rightfully so. Her son's on a very hot team. I got very excited that Tampa Bay Lightning game, but let's face it. Everybody did.

That was an awesome game. It's game of the year. It's game of the year. Best game we've seen. You can be a Tampa fan and losing and still look at that one and go like, That was a game of the year. That was a lot of fun. Thanks to Sam Carrick for stopping by.

Thanks to the Buffalo Sabres organization for making him available. Thanks to Dave Panyoda. And thanks to Dave himself for making himself available. And to Zach for booking him, as he does each and every week here on the sheet. Enjoy your weekend. We're back 1 o'clock Eastern on Monday for more of this program. Hope you can be here. If you've already subscribed to our YouTube channel, thank you.

If not, please consider doing so. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Thanks for being in the chat. We're back on Monday. Dismissed. Have a great weekend.