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

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Starting point is 00:00:31 stop by Starbucks this winter. Every visit to Starbucks is worth it. I'm not sure, York Chop, if you saw the picture of Spartacat with the half Senators half Nordics jersey on but just reading the comments that did not go over well York Chop that did not go over well. Well first of all Jeff you're having a great hair day. There's some positive right there. I don't think so I don't know. I have told you before I'd

Starting point is 00:01:05 like the Kraft peanut butter bear just sort of poof and then that's it. Yeah. I'm just happy to have some. I'm not taking this hat off because you don't want to see this right now. But so it's funny your producer Zach. Yes. Sends me a note and I, we did our show this morning and I like to decompress after I go to the gym, take the dog for a walk, go for a coffee. I didn't check social media all day and I'm like, what's going on? I'm like, oh. So I've been on, I was talking to Wally. I think there's now up to 95,000 views on the picture, the split screen of the Sens. I'll simplify it as best as I can.

Starting point is 00:01:51 I think there was very good intentions with what they're doing. I agree. I agree. And Jeff, if you look at what the Senators have done so far under Michael Anlaris, Steve Stoio, Dave Poole, they've pretty well hit all the marks. Like they've, everything is,

Starting point is 00:02:06 they're in third place right now in the division. They're in a playoff spot. They've had a great season so far. Everything's been really good. I would say this is probably the first time you could say, ah, you just might want to think that over before you do the split jersey. I don't mind.

Starting point is 00:02:24 For me, you want to go play games in Quebec City great pre-season and I understand what they're trying to do they're trying to expand the Ottawa Senators fan base and why wouldn't you? I think there's great intentions there but this fan base and I know from living in here playing in here and now doing media for the last whatever 15 years the fan, I don't know if sensitive is the right word, but they're the team's been around long enough where there's a lot of pride in this whole in this in this fan base and they just they don't like to see something like that where you have a jersey with your team and even though the Quebec Nerdiques don't exist anymore,

Starting point is 00:03:04 I just think a lot of people don't like that look. And it's obviously by the reaction on Twitter. And like I said, I don't think there was any poor intentions. I just think probably one of those things where you might have wanted to think, you know what, before we do this, let's let's maybe spitball a little bit more and see what the reaction is going to be because the reaction hasn't been good on that part. I don't think people care about playing there or doing that in the regular season. It's just the Jersey thing was been good on that part. I don't think people care about playing there or doing that in the regular season. It's just the jersey thing is the big thing.

Starting point is 00:03:28 See, you mentioned the word sensitive and I agree with you on that. I think the fan base is sensitive and the fan base should be sensitive. It's not that long ago, not that I'm speak ill of the dead, but we can all remember Eugene Melnick speculating on, well, if I don't see full buildings here,

Starting point is 00:03:42 there's Quebec City down the street. I cannot, listen, I can understand the fan base being particularly sensitive about that. I get that. I'll squash, I'd squash that right away because there is no chance this team's moving. No, no. And I know, personally, you know, like this ownership group,

Starting point is 00:04:00 there's a ton of money behind the team. There's a ton of people that care. So there's, like, as far as saying this is a threat or something, absolutely not. I just think this is something, like I said, where you're going there, you're trying to get some excitement around there. I just think the timing wasn't great and probably wasn't thought wholeheartedly of that pick there because I think they were just trying to have some fun. Have some fun with it, get some excitement going. A couple of Thomas Chabot was down there, had some players down there.

Starting point is 00:04:30 And then all of a sudden, and I would say the timing, what I mean by that, Jeff, you just had a game where you get some Maple Leafs where you played one of your best games of the year, but, and I'll tell you from playing in those games, you got a lot of Toronto Maple Leaf fans in your building and said that pisses not only the players I pisses sense fans off a lot of sense fans don't go to the games Because they don't want to be in that environment

Starting point is 00:04:52 So the timing of this along with the timing of just having the Toronto Maple Leafs in town where the game went well But people are yeah sensitive isn't in a good word. I'll tell you I hated it and I don't know if fans don't like it either Yeah, I mean a lot of this too. I think there'd be a lot. I think you can calm a lot of people down I know this is out of Michael and Lauer's hands, but yeah I mean, I think everyone's just waiting for an announcement about the new Arena and would have figured that that would have come by now Sure, and I know and listen I am NOT throwing darts at and Lauer for that one He's trying to move this thing along as quickly as possible.

Starting point is 00:05:28 But I think if anything, that would calm every... I agree with you. The reaction, oh, they're musing about going to Quebec City. Ottawa Senator is not going to Quebec City. Ottawa Senator is going nowhere. But I think what would calm everybody down is if there were concrete plans and here is a direction towards the new arena. Just think from dealings in the past and being from Ottawa, the SEC, there's been delays before everybody knows the parcel of land down there, LeBreton Flats. It's been sitting there for us. So people want to get it going. But like anything, it takes time. I just think I think people are reading a little more, a little more into that announcement than was there.

Starting point is 00:06:08 Like it's going to take some time and it's going to take probably the whole year to get a deal done and to get, you know, there's a ton of things to go behind there. There's political things that go on and all that things. But as far as putting Quebec city and the announcement with the Breton flats in the rink, there is zero correlation between the two. I just think it's something they did.

Starting point is 00:06:33 And the thing that's pissed people off more is the jersey and sharing the jersey like that. And I understand that. But as far as Quebec City, the team moving and all that, and trying to use this as leverage, I think there's zero, zero connection to those two things. Okay, off of that page, really quick to the actual hockey team.

Starting point is 00:06:51 Yeah, let's do it. All of a sudden, you know, we were wondering which of the three were going to emerge, Detroit, Buffalo or the Ottawa Senators. Though look now we have our answer. Do you think it's legit? Do you think this is legit team right now or is this a little bit of fool's gold? What say you, Jason York? I would say it's legit, Jeff. And I just this team plays.

Starting point is 00:07:11 I've been saying this for a couple of months now. The way this team goes about their business, the way they play, I know they're not scoring right now, but they defend better than I have seen this team defend in a long time. You'd have to go back to 2000, 2017 when they made the playoffs, they made that nice little run. But it's Travis Green has these guys bought in, Jeff. They're winning with their number one goaltending in All-Mark. Everybody was worried when he went down. Merrill Ivan has come in there and didn't play really well. Everybody thought Forsberg was out and he wasn't going to be get back to it. And long behold here is he's had a couple real nice strong games as

Starting point is 00:07:48 well. So I think it's legit. I just it's been too consistent for too long how this team plays. They're in every game. They always gives himself a chance because of the style they play. And you know, as well as I do, if you're going to be a playoff team, it's all about defending and this team has learned how to defend. Who's been the, I mean, Maryland might be the ultimate answer.

Starting point is 00:08:09 I mean, Holy smokes has he been fantastic for his team. But who's been the biggest revelation for you outside of him who got ushered into duty by necessity. Who's been the biggest revelation for you? I would say probably the guy that's made the most impact that probably doesn't get enough credit outside the auto area, probably Nick Jensen. Really? I look at what he's done, Jeff. A lot of people were talking about Thomas Chabot in a negative way before this season. A lot of people were talking about this right side was too thin on defense.

Starting point is 00:08:44 I'm not saying he's been their best player, but what he's done coming into this situation and I'm a little bit biased being a right shot defenseman, but he's really stabilized that blue line. Everybody says this, how do you go and find a right shot defenseman in the league right now that can play in your top four? Ottawa did it. I know they lost Chikran in the deal, but Jensen has been my god, Jeff, he's been really, really good. And he's helped Shabbat bring his game to where people thought it should be, which is he's been playing excellent. So I just look at the stabilizing force of Jensen has really, really brought this team to another level. You know, the old cliche is right shot at 10% of the contract. How much extra do you think you earned because you were a right shot D? You ever think about that in your career? How much extra you put in your jeans, jerk, job? Oh, I'd love to play now.

Starting point is 00:09:33 Jeff, just being a parker. I play a little bit. That's why I like Jensen. I like that style of play. Obviously, I think more more so now than ever with the right shot. I just think every team's looking for them. And the game's changed too. It's all about skating, moving the puck, making that first pass. That's what Jensen does. So, absolutely. Yeah, I probably made a few million for that reason alone. Just a casual few million to set, put it on the back, yeah. Just go buy some tin cans of Canadian Tire to stuff the money in and bury in your backyard. I know, Yorkie, I know. Long, quiet green, not the noisy stuff

Starting point is 00:10:06 that makes that rattling noise in our pockets. All right, listen, we'll let you go on that. Thanks for jumping in real last. I just wanna make sure that we had some kind of conversation about what happened today. I mean, ultimately, it goes nowhere because the Ottawa senators are not going anywhere, but it was-

Starting point is 00:10:24 They're not. Put it this way, I look at what happened today as a controlled fire. That was a very, very controlled... It wasn't anything that's gonna get anything carried away. I think everybody, to your point, I think everybody knows what the intentions were. Things happened along the way. Good way to put a ball on it, Jeff. Good way to put a ball on it. Yeah, there we go. Alright, nice and tidy.

Starting point is 00:10:46 Okay, back to your daily chores and we'll check in again soon to see how to walleye for them. See you, Jeffy. I can't get out my head, lost all ambitions day to day Guess you can call it a ride I went to the dark man, he tried to give me a little medicine I'm like, no man, that's fine I'm not against those methods, but I knew It's me, myself and how this gon' be fixing my mind I do wanna break it

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

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