The Sheet with Jeff Marek - On the Sheet: Jason Gregor

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

Jason Gregor joins Jeff Marek to discuss the Nashville Predators, St. Louis Blues turnaround, big defenceman who can skate, and a whole lot more...--------------------------------------------Connect w...ith us on ⬇️Daily FaceoffX: https://x.com/DailyFaceoffInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailyfaceoff/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailyfaceoff/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailyfaceoff?lang=en Website: https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/The SheetX: https://x.com/thesheethockey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesheethockey/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesheethockey Daily Faceoff Merch:https://nationgear.ca/collections/daily-faceoff#Nashville #Predators #NewYork NewYorkRangers #dailyfaceoff #jeffmarek #buffalosabres #nhl #nhlnews #hockey #hockeytalk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:23 Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at one you need, whenever you need it. Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. 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,
Starting point is 00:00:56 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.
Starting point is 00:01:19 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.
Starting point is 00:01:39 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
Starting point is 00:02:08 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,
Starting point is 00:02:15 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
Starting point is 00:02:22 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
Starting point is 00:02:50 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.
Starting point is 00:03:07 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
Starting point is 00:03:28 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
Starting point is 00:03:55 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.
Starting point is 00:04:17 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.
Starting point is 00:04:32 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,
Starting point is 00:04:53 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.
Starting point is 00:05:02 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
Starting point is 00:05:15 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.
Starting point is 00:05:34 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
Starting point is 00:06:05 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.
Starting point is 00:06:42 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
Starting point is 00:07:10 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?
Starting point is 00:07:39 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?
Starting point is 00:07:58 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.
Starting point is 00:08:18 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.
Starting point is 00:08:41 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.
Starting point is 00:08:57 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
Starting point is 00:09:17 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?
Starting point is 00:09:37 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.
Starting point is 00:09:50 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.
Starting point is 00:10:12 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,
Starting point is 00:10:30 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.
Starting point is 00:10:55 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.
Starting point is 00:11:19 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
Starting point is 00:11:53 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
Starting point is 00:12:30 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
Starting point is 00:13:08 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
Starting point is 00:13:26 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
Starting point is 00:13:42 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.
Starting point is 00:14:12 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.
Starting point is 00:14:33 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
Starting point is 00:14:59 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
Starting point is 00:15:11 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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Starting point is 00:16:01 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
Starting point is 00:16:18 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.
Starting point is 00:16:36 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?
Starting point is 00:17:08 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
Starting point is 00:17:23 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.
Starting point is 00:17:52 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
Starting point is 00:18:06 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
Starting point is 00:18:14 earlier on today. So looking forward to that. The only thing I heard you meant in the Los Angeles Kings and you were, Frank,
Starting point is 00:18:20 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.
Starting point is 00:18:30 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,
Starting point is 00:18:44 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
Starting point is 00:19:10 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,
Starting point is 00:19:48 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.
Starting point is 00:20:04 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
Starting point is 00:20:19 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.
Starting point is 00:20:42 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
Starting point is 00:20:51 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?
Starting point is 00:21:01 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.
Starting point is 00:21:16 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.
Starting point is 00:21:31 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,
Starting point is 00:21:47 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
Starting point is 00:21:59 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.
Starting point is 00:22:09 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.
Starting point is 00:22:24 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...
Starting point is 00:22:39 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.
Starting point is 00:23:07 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.
Starting point is 00:23:20 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,
Starting point is 00:23:30 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.
Starting point is 00:23:47 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,
Starting point is 00:23:53 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
Starting point is 00:24:05 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
Starting point is 00:24:13 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
Starting point is 00:24:32 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.
Starting point is 00:24:50 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,
Starting point is 00:25:10 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.
Starting point is 00:25:25 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.
Starting point is 00:25:47 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.
Starting point is 00:26:03 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,
Starting point is 00:26:46 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
Starting point is 00:27:15 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. Have been on the days that went wrong.
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