The Sheet with Jeff Marek - On the Sheet: Jason Gregor
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One half of the DFO Rundown, the latest podcast, just came out today.
And in advance of Gregor talking for another four hours,
this guy is the minute, he's the Adrian O'Coin.
That's for your old school fans out there of the Daily Faceoff world.
He is Jason Gregor, and he joins me now. So, Gregor, here's who I was comparing you to a second ago,
and I want to know if you could be any one of these players, who would you be?
Now, these are the top six players who played the most in the NHL,
most time on ice in career.
Number one is Ryan Suter over almost 36,000 minutes.
Then Brent Burns at 31,000,
Duncan Keith and Drew Doughty just over 30,
Alex Ovechkin at 29,
and Zidane O'Chara at 29.
You are the ultimate minute muncher out there in broadcasting,
but if you could be any one of those six players,
who would it be?
Suter, Burns, Keith, Dowdy, Ovechkin, Chara?
Well, I think to take a line from baseball
where the chicks dig the long ball,
I think chicks dig goal scoring.
So I got to go with Ovi.
Come on, he's going to be the greatest goal scorer of all time.
Now, the funny thing is,
to be Chara's size and to be able to just physically intimidate everybody would be probably pretty
fun and keith and dowdy were elite uh for sure they're all well keith's a hall of famer and
dowdy's gonna be a hall of famer but i'll go with ovi because man there were a few days when maybe
you're tired you could just line up on the left side and shoot bombs and no one can stop you even though it's coming.
So see,
I'm almost warmish
to Duncan Keith
on this one
because I'm an awful skater,
knock-kneed,
clunky,
like all of it.
I mean,
I grew up playing net,
like I was a goaltender
and then I just became
like a hack defenseman
after that.
But I'd love to feel
what if,
I'd love to feel
that sensation
of being able to,
just to skate like duncan
keith and to glide like duncan keith but i will tell you there is something really attractive
about being zidane ochara for a day right like can i just be can i just see the world
through charlie just skate through a game like zidane ochara like i don't know that we really
yet have appreciated what we just saw like before zidane och'Chara like I don't know that we really yet have appreciated what
we just saw like before Zidane
O'Chara there was Larry Robinson and Robinson
was sort of like the char of his day like
nobody messed with him he's always an all star
hall of famer all of it
I always just wonder like what's it like being
chara for a day and having like
being able to
being able to terrify
everybody on the ice more than anybody else.
And they're lucky that Chara, he had a conscience.
You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah.
He would intimidate you when need be,
but he also seemed to have like a real human respect element
where some guys are just like, uh-uh, we're going,
and I'm going to absolutely destroy you, and I'll keep punching you.
You saw a few many times in fights and even hits
where he kind of let up a little bit just because he was so strong.
I've talked to guys who have played with him and guys who played against him.
He's one of the greatest human beings that they've ever met.
You see him now.
He retires, and he's running marathons.
He's always
looking to different ways to push himself like he's ultra dedicated and he's another great example
jeff and i know you studied the history of the game he's such another great example of hockey
being a late developing sport because if you go watch the dino char and junior when he was
you know like his first few years you know because he was so big and Hockey League. You know, like his first few years, you know, because he was so big
and, you know, he looked kind of awkward.
He became a really good skater
for a man that big.
So he played at Prince George
and his coach was Stan Butler.
Stan now coaches the Eriotters of the OHL.
And I can recall,
because I've known Stan for years,
and I remember him telling me the stories
of this kid who's huge and green as grass.
And I have no idea what we're going to do with him.
And he told me about his first fight.
He's like, he's never fought.
He never fought.
I can't remember who the kid he fought was, but it didn't go well for that kid.
But he had never done it before.
And he just wanted to try it to see what it was like.
But listen, you remember him with the Islanders.
We all looked at him and said, like, I have no idea what this is going to turn into.
And what it turned into was one of the best defense we've ever seen.
Well,
one of the worst,
well,
worst or best trades,
depending on which side of the ledger you're on Ottawa or the Islanders at
that time.
Remember?
Cause he was kind of like a throw in on the deal,
which is crazy.
Thinking back on it.
Yeah.
Here's a,
here's an all-star or how about Ottawa having to make that decision? Are we
keeping Wade Redden or are we keeping Zidane Ochoa?
We can't keep both.
In hindsight, you know what?
That was clearly the wrong decision.
We're really good talking from
the back seat here in the media.
That was the wrong decision.
Anyhow,
really quickly, a couple of things about
because the nice thing about having you on is go everywhere.
Um, you have a quick thought of what we saw between the Sabres and the, uh, and the New
York Rangers yesterday.
I was making the point off the top, like that was a game that Rangers had to have.
Although if anything, it just showed me that, I don't know, they're going to have enough
juice to do this for the entire season.
And the woes just continue for the Buffalo Sabres.
Well, you're getting booed by your hometown
crowd twice um they're probably almost happy to go on the road right now and it's too bad and I
get why Buffalo fans like I'm not being down on the Sabre fans man your team's missed the playoffs
NHL record 13 times I think it's the longest uh active record of all four major sports you know
added any league and no one's missed the playoffs that
many consecutive seasons it's it's awful and like this was supposed to be another one of the years
where the Sabres take a step and as big of a game as that was last night for the Rangers I think it
was equally big for the Sabres like you know the Rangers were two and eight and you know you could
have made them two and nine and suddenly you know you're within even in closer striking distance but
if you just do the math now the Sabres are going to have to play unreal hockey here,
be at like a 103-point pace to get in if we think it's a 95-point cut line.
So they're closing in again, Jeff, where we'll get to Christmas,
and the Sabres are out of the playoffs.
Almost not virtually mathematically, but pretty much.
And that shouldn't have been the case this year.
So I don't know what the organization is going to do, to be honest.
And I think this is a tough one where you can try to make a big splash
thinking it's going to change, and then you end up making the wrong trade,
and all you do is dig yourself deeper into the hole.
And I think they just, as hard as it's going to be in
buffalo i think they have to remain patient here and just find ways to get the most out of their
players because they'll have good games then they won't i like their top four defense you know
that's a lot to build around there's there's no reason that they shouldn't be more competitive
you know it just seems to me though when i look at the Buffalo Sabres, so much more up front than if you look at the back end, I still see more potential than actual.
And I know it takes defensemen longer.
I get all that.
But I look up front and I still say they don't have anyone that should be on the first line.
Like everybody is one.
You don't think Tate Thompson is the first line player?
No, I don't.
Not on a good team.
And I like Tate Thompson, but to me, on a good team, he's a second line center.
He's a second line center. Really good team. And I like Tate Thompson, but to me, on a good team, he's a second-line center. He's a second-line center.
Really good player.
It just seems like him and everybody else are playing one level up
than where they should be.
You know, like, should Alex Tuck and JJ Paterka be up that high?
I know Paterka's young.
Tuck's been around.
It just seems like everybody's asked to punch above their weight.
And you can do it for a while, but you can't do it over a long stretch. It just seems like everybody's asked to punch above their weight.
And you can do it for a while, but you can't do it over a long stretch.
And I know we keep telling this.
They didn't spend any time in the American League.
The other thing, too, is you're Kevin Adams.
I mean, how do you not feel frozen right now?
Like you don't want to make the move that sends Dylan Cousins to getting his name scratched on the Stanley Cup. Because we've seen it before.
There should be hesitation.
The Jack Eichel trade, which was only really made because they were like,
well, we don't really agree with his doctors.
And look what happened.
He goes and he gets the surgery.
Vegas is like, yeah, do the surgery you want.
And now look at Jack Eichel.
He's at the midway point of the season or third point of the season.
He'd be one of the three finalists for the heart.
He's played great.
You know, he won a cup, played great there.
You look at Sam Reinhart.
What's he done since he left Buffalo?
And, you know, those are two number two overall picks.
And, you know, those are top guys.
Like, how much better would they be if they ran the organization
so those guys would have wanted to stay?
So I think Buffalo has to – now, Kevin Adams wasn't there.
I get it.
But still, you look at – or maybe he was there for Reinhardt.
But you look at that whole organization.
There's a reason you lose 13 years in a row
and you don't make the playoffs, right?
It's in that management.
It just is.
And so they have to make smart moves now.
And I get that Dylan Cousins is struggling.
But you just signed him to a – you believed in him enough to pay him that money.
You can't just flip the switch all of a sudden and be impatient.
Because you know what happens?
You trade him.
And then, like, look at Dylan Strom.
How could Dylan Cousins potentially not be the next Dylan Strom?
Right?
You don't think – like, Chicago didn't offer – they didn't qualify him.
Then he went away.
And now look at him.
Gets somebody who believes him.
And no one, no one, right?
Frank was telling the story.
The only team who was going to offer Strome a contract was Washington, right?
Like, I think there's real bias at times, Jeff, in the NHL when you look
and they have a notion on a player,
it's like, this guy's nothing.
And I would be very cautious on Dylan Cousins right now.
I get he's struggling.
So then work with him rather than just throw him out.
Don't throw out the baby in the bathwater because you'll look down the road
and be, oh, Dylan Cousins, 70-point player on some other team.
And you're like, huh.
And what did we get?
Oh, we got a few picks that didn't pan out.
Hello, beans.
It's interesting, too, because there's, on the one hand,
when it comes to managers, there's always been this tug and pull.
And you see this in hockey all the time.
Copycat League, you know, tried to April was successful before
and tried to do it again.
But it seems as if there's this tug between managers.
On the one hand, there's the groupthink where everybody makes their mind up about someone together.
And they say it back to each other so many times that everybody starts to believe it.
Versus, and this was always Glenn Sather.
I mean, you're closer to it than I am.
You know this.
That arrogance of the manager that says, you know what?
All this guy needs is to be in our program.
This guy needs to be on.
I mean, how many times did you see Glenn Sather do this?
Both in Edmonton and then maybe even more specifically with the New York Rangers.
Like there are some managers that are willing to really stick their necks out.
And sometimes it flops.
Sometimes it doesn't work.
But I admire those guys because they swing for the fences.
It doesn't always work. But every now and then they hit those tape measure home runs well hey you can't hit a home run if you don't get in the batter's box and sometimes you got
to take a wild swing right like you got to be the vladdy guerrero who's swinging out of out of his
own all the time sometimes you know and sometimes you'll have an infield fly and then the next one
you know you're raking it out over the fence and and you're right i like i look at bill garen i look at bill garen right now and and i maybe he
he got this a little bit from jim rutherford because jim rutherford man that guy was never
afraid to make trades look at the canucks last year they're making more trades than the whole
rest of the league combined during the season and it doesn't mean you win a cup but look at
minnesota's defense now they they absolutely
fleeced san jose for for jake middleton now look you know you look at that deal as middleton
for capo kakinen and jake middleton now is you know is a top pair defenseman in his role as a
demon on that team they got for fiala oh and a draft pick right oh and we'll just throw in favor
and then they just took your sec
now he's young but man i'm really bullish on that guy i think when people tell me oh he's not a
great skater i'm like he's he's huge he's not even 21 years of age he's got to get stronger but i
leon people said leon drysaddle wasn't a very good skater so what did he do he just he spent all
summer uh lifting weights and doing a ton of bench press and not bend press uh deadlift and guess what he came back and now he's a good skater
we talked about sedano char earlier wasn't a good skater there are certain things that you can
improve on and if you help and support the player and they're willing to do it and i'm guessing
your sec is you watch in a few years people are going to be like oh what a trade that was for
minnesota i i think it's i think it's going to turn out to be great for them.
And right now, Bill Guerin's the Glenn Sather guy
who's like, yeah, we'll go get these guys, no problem.
Thank you, thank you.
A million times thank you,
making that point about Leon Dreisaitl.
Because anybody that watched him in junior,
and I watched him more so when he played in Kelowna
than anywhere else, and right up to the Memorial Cup
where they lost against Oshawa, Anthony Sorelli with the
last goal ever at the Coliseum in overtime.
He was awkward
to watch get around the ice. Like you saw
the skill, the hands were elite.
Won every draw, had the canoe paddle
blade, like all of it. But you said,
oh, the skating, the skating.
But you're right. It is something
that guys now more so than ever
can fix. and no one's
awesome you heard anyone complain about dry saddle skating oh it's still funny bigger guys still like
i still remember when people said maryland you guys you know you're kind of slow out there and
i'm like what the hell are you talking about because first of all when he took a stride
the little water bug beside him would take three, so he looked faster, right? So bigger guys, 6'4", 6'5", like rarely do they look fast.
Like the other day, somebody was trying to tell me Colton Pareko
wasn't a good skater.
And I'm like, what the hell are you talking about?
Colton Pareko's a really good – like that guy's – what is he, 6'6", 6'7"?
Like he is an excellent skater, especially for his size.
So I think sometimes bigger bodies automatically –
like dry settle.
And the other thing is, Jeff, dry settle can move when he wants,
but he likes to slow the game down.
Him and McDavid are oil and water when it comes to how they attack.
McDavid will come and just blow right by you all day,
and then dry settle will come in slowly.
Now, slowly is in the term of – to me, it's controlled.
He can slow the game down.
I know when you get close like
forsberg and jagger sticks out the rear end and i'm like now i can't get the puck right and so i
think there's different ways because sometimes i get thrust everybody thinks oh you gotta be a
great skater if you're not a great skater or you can't play and i'm like no you just can't be a
bad skater and get around and you know what but then, some guys have been in the NHL a long time
who aren't fleet of foot
and they still,
because they're smart.
See Tavares,
comma,
John,
and he's still good in front of the net
and he's still good along the boards.
Open ice might not be his friend.
Corey Perry,
there's another one.
There's another great example.
Open ice is not his friend,
but that's okay.
That's not where he dines out.
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Colton Preko a second ago,
and here's what I wanted to get to with you today.
Don't look now, but the St. Louis Blues are 5-1-1
under Jim Montgomery. And don't look now but the St. Louis Blues are 5-1-1 under Jim Montgomery
and don't look now but
Robert Thomas is very well healed
after the ankle injury and he's got
19 points in 16 games
and don't look now but Jordan
Kibrew is firing and
I know the goaltending this year between
Bennington and Hofer hasn't exactly been
exemplary but
could the St. Louis Blues make the wild card interesting?
The last time you and I spoke, we were like,
ah, you know what?
It's wrapped up.
It's done.
This thing is over.
But if you have a look,
the St. Louis Blues are three points out of a wildcard spot.
And you have a little Jim Montgomery fairy dust that's been sprinkled over this team.
We've seen it before.
Now, I'm not saying Stanley Cup because there are a whole bunch of different things about that St. Louis team than this St. Louis team.
I'm just talking about can they make the wildcard race interesting? Could they
make the playoffs?
I hope they can because
there doesn't look like
the race might be a seeding race, but if
we look at the teams, okay, well, LA's won
six in a row, so the
Blues, as great as they're played, have actually lost ground
on LA. Edmonton
has found their game, and I don't
see them turning back vegas is good
minnesota's been good all year long uh the jets you know hit a little funk but they're they got
a lot of ground right dallas jason robertson you know is on a milk carton somewhere and i got to
think that eventually he'll show up um so colorado they've traded both their goalies which i think is
what the buffalo and when they were going to tank
is the last time we've seen a team trade both of their top two goalies
to start a season.
So I think they're going to get better.
I still don't love their defensive system.
So that really only leaves Vancouver, right?
And are they the only team?
Like now they got Demko back, JT Miller's back skating.
If they're healthy, I just look at St. Louis and say,
I think they could probably finish ninth, Jeff. But they're healthy, I just look at St. Louis and say, I think they could probably finish ninth,
Jeff.
But they're going to
have to play great
and one of those teams
is going to have to
struggle for them
to get in.
And JT Miller is in
tonight after we saw
the announcement
earlier on today.
So looking forward
to that.
The only thing I heard
you meant in the
Los Angeles Kings
and you were,
Frank,
we're talking about
this on the pod
that I listened to
last weekend,
which would have
been the Thursday drop.
Right now, it's LA and Edmonton again in the opening round of the playoffs
starts today.
And nobody wants to see that.
Like as a,
as a fan,
like I don't like I've had it no more.
I don't care who you play.
Like bring back,
bring back the Atlanta thrashers and the California golden seals and anyone
else,
Cleveland Barons.
I do not want to watch LA and Edmonton again.
I think the only people who might are the orders because they beat them.
They've beaten them and gotten better every time.
It was seven, then it was six, then it was five.
LA, I think if you're the Kings,
I think their best matchup in the Pacific is Vegas, honestly.
I think LA plays a style that has the size that they could really give vegas fits in a seven game series sometimes in the playoffs jeff and you know this
matchups matter a lot right and 100 some teams they just don't match up in la la doesn't have
the speed down the middle to match emminton they just don't they can't and i know they changed
their style this year they're not sitting back they try to sit back for three years it never worked right the one three one did not work edmonton was patient
and then they could they get two chances they'd score it's game over so i look at la and they
probably you know anybody else i think they can match up against but even with all their changes
if they get in a series against edmonton it's december and i would pick edmonton because they
haven't changed their group enough that i could see them beating speaking of edmonton, it's December and I would pick Edmonton because they haven't changed their group enough that I could see
them beating. Speaking of Edmonton,
I have a couple of minutes with you. I know you've got to get to your show.
I do want to ask you about the
Edmonton Oilers. I think this is
a team that right now is looking
at their squad and saying, we're not even considering
doing anything.
I saw they picked up Alec Wigula here
on waivers from the Boston Bruins.
There's an interesting story
with him. His history is interesting.
It seems like
it's a team that's convinced that
they don't really hit their stride.
Things don't really start to come
together until early January.
It seems as if they're quite content
to wait for early January
to happen.
Do you think that's wise?
Well, the team itself is, you know, what are they, 16-7-2?
They started 0-3, but since then they've been good.
Darnell Nurse, by the way, Jeff, you can make the argument
he's been the best defensive defenseman in the NHL since November.
He's been better. He's been better, yeah, absolutely.
You look at his underlying numbers, they're unreal.
He's only been on the ice for two goals against
and he's cut down
his big errors.
He's moving the puck.
He's playing great.
So that helps their team.
But from a management
perspective,
they have the luxury
of being patient
because they got to see
what happens with Kane.
Like, what's he going to be
when he comes back?
Can he come back?
You know, Victor Arvidsson,
now there was concerns
when he got signed.
The one concern I heard from people in L.A. and other places were he gets banged up.
And what happens?
He's banged up again.
Like, guys who are always hurt, sadly, there's a reason.
They're always hurt.
They're always hurt.
Like, I can't explain why.
It just happens.
So, are they in a rush to make a move?
No.
I think everybody knows they have to make a move.
I still think they would like to upgrade their second pair right defense.
I love Troy Stetcher's competitiveness.
I love everything about him,
but I wouldn't want him as my second pair right defenseman in the postseason.
So that's where I think they have to go.
And their challenge is look around the league.
Jeff, who is a second pair right defenseman who's available?
Oh, I know.
And they're not,
they're not,
teams aren't letting them go.
And if you're going to get one,
it's going to be a King's ransom again.
Right?
Like I,
I trust me.
Dallas has been beating the bushes
for one D and one forward now
for a while.
And we're hearing big names.
I wonder if they just wait
until the four nations is over
before making their move or they may be forced into doing something sooner. We'll if they just wait until the Four Nations is over before making their move,
or they may be forced into doing something sooner.
We'll see.
We'll see the big names.
Well, the Sagan injury is not good for them, right?
Like, quietly, he was having a really good year,
20 points in 19 games.
I'll tell you, you know,
we make a lot about the Rupe Hinn's line.
That line with Matt DeShane, Tyler Sagan,
and Mason Marchment.
Holy smoke.
You want to talk about a quiet, great year? Have a look at and Mason Marchment. Holy smoke. You want to talk about
a quiet, great year? Have a look at what Mason
Marchment's doing. But you're right. Tyler Sagan was
right there. And Matt DeShane
being interviewed on ESPN, they're saying,
you think you might make Team Canada? Because your numbers
are there, Matt DeShane.
But good luck getting...
He's been a revelation.
It didn't work out for him in Nashville.
And then he gets bought out and comes back. man he's he's playing excellent for dallas and
you get in the right situation for guys with skill i'm still a believer fit matters jeff for lots of
players and we talked off the start about opportunity and i don't think guys just some
guys do slow off and fall off a cliff a little bit at times you know when they're in their mid
thirties but matt Matt Duchesne,
I never felt he was there.
Like what did he had the one great year in Nashville?
And then there's some injuries and Nashville for whatever reason,
look this year,
offense goes to die there.
Yeah.
If you,
if you look at for a lot of players,
it does.
And I think that's something that organization,
you know,
they,
they,
they really need a true center. Like they've got all these good wingers. They got nobody to move the puck. So that's something that organization, you know, they really need a true center.
Like they've got all these good wingers.
They've got nobody to move the puck.
So that's not ideal, but it is something where,
I don't know if I've ever seen an organization that is that good at
goaltending and defining defensemen.
And then they can't consistently find offensive players.
You're not wrong.
And a lot of those blue liners were off in the Western hockey league and
you're right. It is a complete goaltending factory and you're right. Like And a lot of those blue liners were off from the Western hockey league. And you're right.
It is a complete goaltending factory.
And you're right.
Like they have tried everything.
Listen,
a couple of years when the,
when the draft was in Nashville,
you know,
there's like,
they were hanging,
you know,
a scar off same out there trying to get the fourth overall pick.
Will Smith from the San Jose sharks.
Yeah.
Like they were open for business.
And look,
look what they got for him.
Like that's,
that's a trade that when you consider how potentially good he could be. Yeah. Yikes what they got for him. That's a trade that, when you consider
how potentially good he could be,
yikes.
Okay, real quick.
This is from Johnny Lazarus
and I'm going to let you go.
Question for both of you.
I'm going to let you answer
then you got to scoot
because I know you got a show
coming up top of the hour.
Which player in the early stages
of your media career
were you the most nervous
to talk one-on-one with?
Was there someone that you were like I'm going to try to be cool
here but inside it's
butterflies and I really hope
they can't see that I'm sweating at this point
if you want to think about it for a second
mine is Marcel Dion
early early in my career like 2000
2001 maybe 2002
Dion came out with his book and had him live in studio.
I was doing a show with Bill Waters and had him live in studio.
And I still remember when I was a kid,
my dad always telling me about the best player in the NHL is Marcel Dion.
You just don't get to see LA Kings games. It's Marcel Dion, Marcel Dion.
And I finally got a chance to meet little beaver. And I was like,
I'm actually nervous to talk to Marcel Dion. So that was it for me.
What about you, Jason?
Yeah, covered on a daily basis.
Like the owners didn't have any superstars,
so it definitely wasn't that early.
But honestly, still, because it was the first time I interviewed Gretzky,
for sure.
Oh, yeah.
And I was like, oh, my God, I'm talking to Wayne Gretzky here.
And it was just like a one-on-one.
It wasn't in a group.
It was a one-on-one setting.
And Wayne, of course, is the ultimate professional.
And he was a really good guy.
He would be one.
But my favorite interview was when I got Donovan Bailey in studio for an hour.
Oh, wow.
Because I remember exactly where I was in 1996 when he won the gold medal.
And it was like it brought pride back to Canadians after Ben Johnson and everything.
And it pissed me off because I knew Ben wasn't the only one cheating.
He just got caught.
Screw the Americans.
I'm sorry, Carl Lewis, the biggest meter ever.
But just never got caught.
And for Donovan to win that, and then when he came in studio,
he was a big – like sprinters, it's an individual.
They're big personalities, right?
And that's what Donovan was.
And I remember there being like, okay, we did an hour long in studio which is amazing and like after it
took me about 10 minutes to calm down i was just like donovan bailey here so that was that wasn't
early on and it wasn't a hockey guy but that was like the the most excited maybe i've ever been for
an interview that's awesome great one okay released you can catch your breath get a sip of coffee or a sip
of water and you got another hyper but no coffee i've never had it could only drink water you've
never had a cup of coffee eh no i can't i'm hyper enough to smell of it i don't know my i made coffee
for my parents growing up as a kid and just and they smoked too when i was a kid so i think okay
like it but even now like so many people oh you, you got to try it, man. And no,
I worked in the oil field for years before I got into media and never drank a
cup. Couldn't do it.
Oil field is not really known for drinking coffee though.
Oh, but don't know. Trust me. Well, there's a few things in the oil field,
but coffee with coffee.
After a night of stiff drinking. Yes. Fair, fair enough. Get in the shower, put on a night of stiff drinking yes fair fair enough get in the
shower put on a pot of coffee he's got to get to work uh you're the best man continued success
we'll catch up soon thanks jeff good job man love the show thanks father is the great jason gregor
uh on the sheet here i love him one half of uh daily well listen one half of one of our signature
one of our signature podcast, Daily Face Off,
the Daily Face Off Monday. day to day I do want to pack it up. I turned on the music.
I do want to pack it up.
I turned on the music.
It's enough, enough, enough.
It's just one time's losing.
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