The Sheet with Jeff Marek - On the Sheet: Shayna Goldman Gives Her Bold Predictions

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

Shayna Goldman of The Athletic and the Too Many Men Podcast joins Jeff Marek on The Sheet for a bold predictions special on FanDuel Futures Day. Shayna lays out three fearless NHL calls for the upcoming season: André Tourigny taking home the Jack Adams Award, Mario Ferraro becoming one of the league’s most talked-about trade chips, and Rasmus Dahlin breaking through to finish top-three in Norris Trophy voting. Jeff and Shayna also dive into the ripple effects of recent contracts, including Kirill Kaprizov and Luke Hughes, and what those deals signal for the next wave of NHL stars.Shout out to our sponsors!👍🏼 FanDuel: https://www.fanduel.com/#TheSheet #NHL #FanDuelCanada #NHLPredictions #StanleyCup #DailyFaceoffReach out to [e-mail] to connect with our Sales Team and discuss opportunities to partner with us!If you liked this, check out:🚨 OTT - Coming in Hot Sens | https://www.youtube.com/c/thewallyandmethotshow🚨 TOR - LeafsNation | https://www.youtube.com/@theleafsnation401🚨 EDM - OilersNation | https://www.youtube.com/@Oilersnationdotcom🚨 VAN - CanucksArmy | https://www.youtube.com/@Canucks_Army🚨 CGY - FlamesNation | https://www.youtube.com/@Flames_Nation🚨 Daily Faceoff Fantasy & Betting | www.youtube.com/@DFOFantasyandBetting____________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with us on ⬇️Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/daily_faceoff💻 Website: https://www.dailyfaceoff.com🐦 Follow on twitter: https://x.com/DailyFaceoff💻 Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailyfaceoffDaily Faceoff Merch:https://nationgear.ca/collections/daily-faceoff Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey there, it's Jeff Merrick here. You know, my wife and I both have countless memories from spending time discovering Canada. Well, I always come back to the summer of 2005. We were staying at a cottage on Lake Joseph here in Muscoca, watching the Live 8 music festival in Barry on television. My buddy Jeremy Taggart, former drummer from Our Lady Peace, dropped by after his band's set and stayed the rest of the weekend at the cottage after the band's set and told some incredible backstage stories about some amazing Canadian music icons. I will never forget that.

And fast forward to today, I'm a hockey parent, and I feel like I'm always on the road with my family, whether that means traveling across southern Ontario hockey ranks during the week or overnight at tournaments on select weekends. But what makes our hockey experience even more special is booking a place on Airbnb when we're on the road for overnight tournaments. All of this traveling got me to thinking, my home's just sitting empty when I could be hosting it on Airbnb instead. I'd simply put up my house on Airbnb, pre-select dates that I want to host, bam, it's practical, easy to manage, and it enables people like me to make some money while they're not at home. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb.ca slash host.

Let's bring aboard our first guest. I want to kick things off in style with someone that brings the sass and brings the salt as well. And I know she's very excited about the New York Yankees for the obvious reasons. She's Shannon Goldman, the Too Many Men podcast and also The Athletic, and she joins me now. I know stranger to this or any other broadcast that I am part of because I drag you everywhere, Pickle. What's going on? How are you today? I'm great.

I'm amazing. after last night um can i tell you i did not do my usual superstitions on tuesday what's that so like okay so i i have a certain shirt i wear for yankee games it was my playoff shirt last year i watch the game on a certain screen i sit in a certain spot and i went to see the beaches on tuesday and i had to watch from my phone and it was fine and then i lost service on the subway couldn't watch the game and they went down by two well they went down two to one and i'm like that cost them the game i knew it so i i really buckled in the last year i i really buckled in the last two nights to save the season.

So you're welcome, everyone, to bring us to this moment. Me versus you again, here we go. Didn't you have to wait for the Olympics? You know, the nice thing about all the bets that you and I have between each other. It's always about the same thing. Who's sending dill pickle chips to the other one? I know, and I still owe you. And you still owe me, but that's for a different conversation.

We're going to have that conversation offline. I'm already up a bag on you here. But I like the way that you, because, let's see. Listen, the streets are paid with gold in America. You have the tastiest snacks more so than here in Canada. I will admit that we are inferior when it comes to quality snacks. You find some really obscure ones. I want you to know that I respect and appreciate you for that amongst other things.

Nobody finds more obscure snacks than you do. Usually ones that involve Dill Pickle. So thank you for that. So we got Dill Pickle bag right on this one too? Yeah, why not? I mean, this is the thing. The Trader Joe ones, they didn't even come out with them. Everyone did Dill Pickle.

So I was waiting for them. They never did it. So I will send you two bags if the Blue Jays win. But when they lose, I need two bags of Miss Vickies because I cannot find them enough. Those are really good, too. They do good jalapino. They do good, they did good salt and vinegar. They do a really good job.

Okay. As far as predictions go, so one, we both understand that it'll be the Jays over the Yankees. So we'll just park that for now. We'll bracket that conversation. The sad thing is I believe that. I do believe, I do think that's what's going to happen. but I also didn't think the Yankees were going to beat the socks. Jays aren't going to win a game.

That's their thing. They'll get there. Then they'll squander all of it. They won't even win a single game. But as far as the upcoming NHL schedule goes, the upcoming NHL season, the first one, I'll just lob one out there. I'm curious your thoughts on this one.

And it's more of an awards question than a games question. Just because I have such high expectations for Utah. And normally the way these things go is, whichever coach can take an okay team and make it good or get them into the playoffs or actually do something, generally that coach gets coach of the year my first prediction is

Andre Tourney wins the Jack Adams as coach of the year do you have a thought on that before you blast off on your first one I think you make a good point

but I also feel like lately the coaching award has been like on a year delay like Spencer Carberry is fantastic he should have won it two years ago not last year and so that led to Dean Evanson getting snubbed last year

when I thought he should have been coach of the year so if the Blue Jackets are in the playoff picture and I don't think they have to necessarily make the playoffs right just be in the playoff picture again and show that growth I'm giving it to him but I do like that pick a lot because it's different than what we normally see right it's not a new coach boost it's I've been with this organization for a while and the long game paid off I'm still stunned and I think we all

are although listen maybe if if Tampa has some regular season success maybe finishes first in the division first in the conference maybe John Cooper finally gets a Jack Adams like isn't that the one that we're all sort of stunned by like here's a guy that's going into the hockey Hall of Fame never never won the Jack Adams it surprises everybody they're the two guys for me Cooper and Bednar are the two guys for me that every year it's like why are these guys not getting nods and the answer would be well they have the best players in the world okay but you have to do something with them right to to help Tampa's core click at this level at this point in their careers that is something and to do something when you don't have a ton of depth same with

Colorado look at all the turnover on the roster and coaching the rest of the team to be I mean, a Stanley Cup favorite every year. Does that not count for something? Coaching, everyone thinks that coaching stars is easy. You know what's easy? Coaching hungry, motivated hockey players that haven't achieved anything and are trying to get somewhere.

Stars with millions and millions of dollars in their bank. Like it's the all, you know, Brett Hall would sit there on the Detroit Red Wings bench, you know, and they would go down a puck and he would just like, you know, nod over to Scotty Bowman. Let me know when you want a goal, Scotty. Let me know. It's like, yeah, we get it.

We get it. Like a rookie player, a younger player would never do anything like that. But it's hard because then you have to manage egos too. And this to me is part of the genius of Scotty Bowman. And it was always said about Scotty that all the players hated Scotty Bowman for 364 days of the year. And on day number 365, they got the rings. But he could manage like superstar benches like nobody else. But that comes from the sort of heft of having that Montreal-Canadians dynasty.

and then translating it's what he did with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings. But I'm with you, like coaching a superstar team like the Tampa Bay Lightning, I think that that's got to be, honestly, one of the hardest things to do. Yeah, and go with Tampa specifically, right? Like, Nikita Kuturov is one of the smartest players in the world, and I think he knows how to make sure that show is on a nightly basis. He knows when to split up his lineup and have different options at his disposal. When Tampa won the cup, he knew the right buttons to push.

to have three unbelievable lines, right? And even a good fourth line, you even look at the team today and you go, look at Brandon Hagel's growth and development. Look at Anthony Sorrelli, the player he's become. Look at knowing that if you put Chernak back with McDonagh, after Turner got a couple of bad seasons, that you're gonna let Victor Hedman be the star

that we all know he can be. Like, there's a ton of value to that. And I just think he does it year after year after year where a voice could get pretty stale, right? You're the longest tenure coach. You're going on 10 years. Your voice isn't stale yet there. You're still getting different things out of your team.

with different assistant coaches along the way. I don't know. It seems pretty award worthy to me. Okay. How much you're looking forward to Saturday speaking to Tampa, based on what happened last night between Tampa and Florida? Come on. I don't care about free season.

No, this does not sell. But after what you saw, like, honestly, this is where they're going to go back and get, like, each team is going to go reach back into their history and sign like the, you know, they're Peter Worrells and their Enrico Chaconis and bring back like enforcers from years past, like the closing scene and slap.

shot for payback for what we saw yesterday. And all these old enforcers like PDRL is going to sign PTO Paul Louse. It's going to sign PTOs for one game. That's the only way to make it interesting. Just have no NHL caliber players in there because preseason is dumb. This is not what it should be. This is not what it's about. I get it.

You have a rivalry. You're fighting for a spot. But I don't want to see NHL players get hurt in preseason and we've had more than enough. So I'm pouring cold water on that. Nah, all right, Killjoy. All right, so let's get to some of your predictions then. So big ideas from Shannon Goldman coming up for this season.

Prediction number one is what? So I wanted to be interesting, and it's hard to come up with interesting predictions. I was talking to Zach, and I'm like, maybe Utah making the playoffs. I'm like, that is vanilla. We need to go bigger. So I want to go very specific. So Tournier winning the Jack Adams instead. No, that's more interesting.

That is a more interesting spin on it 100%. I feel like me saying Utah makes the playoffs. It's like, okay, cool, next. And that's no offense to Utah. It's just like, it could actually happen. I'm going to say Mario Ferraro is going to be this big trade ship this year. I think that we're going to be, we always see, you know, these defensive defensemen. Generally, it's a right-handed guy, and I get it.

This could be Rasmus Anderson, but I think that situation's different. And his next contract is going to be such a factor that it's not going to be this like massive haul and sweepstakes like it could be. So I think everyone's going to be looking at Ferraro. He's a cheap guy. And you have to look at him and go, because he has not been very good. in matchup minutes lately the last couple years. There's a reason they took some of them off his plate last year. But at his core, could he be the next Hampus Linholm

where you take him out of San Jose and he gets that glow up with the contender and you just sell, you realize there's so much more to his game that you just couldn't see there because he was being asked to do too much. So Mario Ferraro, to me, I see him going to San Jose. I'm sorry, to New York from San Jose. So the interesting thing about that is he has a personality that if he gets to the New York Rangers somehow or any large market teams. With all the respects, San Jose,

you've had some really wonderful personalities and some colorful players look no further than Joe Thornton. That guy's got the most infectious personality, like in the NHL. Then the secret will be out. That Mario Ferraro is one of the best interviews, the most dynamic players, all of a sudden he's behind the scenes documentaries,

want us to have to follow him around, as opposed to other players. Like, honestly, I know we're all, and rightfully so, you know, we're all insane for, for Seth Jarvis content, and rightfully so. Like a fascinating guy and really entertaining. I'll put Mario Ferraro beside any of these guys any single day of the week. Right away, New York will fall in love with Mario Ferraro.

Yeah, because they're not going to let his personality show. Come on. Like, what, you're going to see it on a security camera with New York Ranger. Just don't allow things like that. No, but I think he'd be good there. I think you already look at their lineup and you go, there's a hole on the left side of the lineup. There's the Greer-drory connection. is clearly there.

So it makes sense from that perspective. There's the cheap contract. College guys. College guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. So that's a, that's a good one.

Give us, give us, um, give us, give us one more. We're going to go sort of shotgun style here. One more from Shannon Goldman. Make it spicy. Spicy pickle. Let's go. Restmas Dahlian is finishing top 30 Norse voting this year. This is his year.

This is the moment. We are going to all talk about that he is a true number one defenseman. In player tiers, we have him top five for good reasons. he's great in all three zones. This is not going to be a conversation. He's going to be so good that we're not talking about. It doesn't matter if the Sabres make the playoffs. No, they're going to be in the playoff picture.

They're going to be in the race in the mix, and that's going to be enough. And maybe he doesn't finish first because of that playoff status, but he is going going to go in top three finally. This is maybe it's McCar Hughes and that third guy is Dahlene, because we're always looking who the third guy is going to be. I think it's going to be him. See, because that was going to be one of mine, was Rasmus Dahlene finally wins the Norris trophy.

Not that he's deserved it yet, but he's sort of, that I've been knocking on the door for a while. Like the Norris is a little, there's a couple of trophies that are almost sort of reputational. And you have to establish your reputation first before you win them. The Selke is clearly that trophy. And I think to a, in a minor key, I think the Norris trophy is that too.

But Rasmus Delene has been so good for so long. And I don't know if the Buffalo Sabres actually do anything. But you can be sure that like one, one ray of light is going to be Rasmus Deline. And to me, year that finally voters notice any wins a nurse trophy yep i'm i'm definitely here for it and i agree with you they're reputational awards so you know i am banging my head against the wall here year after you're being like okay let's make a criteria let's talk about it you don't know how to measure defense

let's do it and there's there's a way to look at the elements that everyone says has to be a part of it besides time on ice and block shots and points like we can go deeper and he's someone that even at this point checks a lot of the boxes right you should be able to move the puck out of your own zone he does it you should be able to you know defend the blue line while he does it you have to go up against top competition does it play in all situations you got it be a guy that your coach trusts in the you know biggest moments of the game okay that's it so i feel like the building blocks are there if we can think about this critically and not just go okay point sheet great number one you're going to be on my ballot you block a ton of shots let's go and let's be boring go this guy deserved a five

years ago. The other play that I wonder about of the Buffalo Sabres is going to wrap up with a thought on this guy because all the talent in the world last year

when Steph Nason caught him and everybody cut their skate laces on the Buffalo Sabres instead of doing something he got more than a little bit miffed

and that's Tage Thompson who seems like he's really frustrated and I do wonder about him if it's another season of woe for the Buffalo Sabers but through all of it

could this guy win the rocket richard yeah yeah he totally could I'm going to be really intrigued to see if he's playing center or wing I think that's going to make a little bit of a difference I think if he's on the wing it'll help him play to his offensive strengths more but I do think we've seen the defensive growth from where he was a couple years ago

so if he's not a complete tire fire in his own zone it's going to help him be in the offensive zone which he needs to do a little bit more and focused on his shot which is his most dangerous weapon when tage Thompson is clicking he is one of the most electric players in the league he is so exciting if the power play can get on the rail I am absolutely in on that.

One final question for it. This is one that I kind of have for a lot of people on the program today. And that is we talk a lot about cascading effects of new contracts. So Luke Hughes signs a deal, 9 million A.AV. Coral Caprizov signs a deal, 17 million AAV. Which of these two contracts has the bigger cascade? I mean, with Caprizov now we're thinking about Kyle Connor and we're thinking about Jack Eichol and A.A.

Adrian Kempay and that guy in Edmonton. I'm going to get to Talley Rumtruck on that a little bit later on the program. And then with Luke Hughes, right away, think about Lane Hudson. I'll also throw Philip Broberg, his name into that discussion as well. Like, which of these two contracts for you, Shana, has the bigger cascading effect in the NHL? Oh, contract talk. That's so fetch. I love that we're doing that today.

I know, yeah. Let's see. I'm going to say. Take the CBA to the beach, too. That's also fun. Listen, I like this stuff. Okay, I'm going to go with Luke Hughes. I think that GMs are going to look at the Caprisoff situation,

and it's like, oh, you're Kyle Conner and you want that money. That's nice, but you're not our only hope in survival, right? Because Carole Caprisoff is that guy in Minnesota that it's like, he is this organization. It's not a slight to favor. It's not a slight to boldie. It's without him, you're not near the playoffs. Like, he is everything and more to that. So I think that that can kind of separate things.

I think Luke Hughes is going to be the more interesting one. because it felt like we were seeing a lot of these big second contract leaps a couple years ago, Jake Sanderson, Owen Power, we saw it with Dylan Cousins, Josh Norris, and not all of those deals panned out exactly the way you could have hoped. And I think teams wanted to pump the brakes on it a little bit. But I think this is the no bet on these guys now. We're already seeing it, Jackson-Ocone getting the bag. And now we're going to see it with guys like Glenn Hudson, as he should as his, you know,

second contract. I think that's going to have a bigger impact here, these longer-term deals, especially for defensemen, right? because it's either you pay your guy now when he's going to be in his peak years or you're overpaying in free agency like everybody just did this summer pick your poison and one of them actually isn't poison it's actually good because this is how you should have been doing it the whole time I think that's going to have a bigger impact you know the uh it's a lesson of pk suban right when he was asking him for five time five and he said no we're going to bridge you next thing

you know they're paying nine million dollars because they're scared of what happens when when you go into the uh the arbitration room is it's a great point um all right um have fun cheering on on the Jays. Okay. I've never a great time. I already threw my outfit from the last two days back in the wash, doing laundry every day here. I know where I need to sit.

I'm back. And I'm locked and I'm ready. She's back. The show is back. We're back to Givertabre. Shannon Goldman from the Too Many Men Podcast and The Athletic. Always a delight to have on. Thank you.

Sheena. this month I can't get out my head lost all ambitions day to day because you can call it all right I went to the dark man and tried to give me a little medicine

I'm like now and that's fine I'm not against those methods but new it's me and myself and how this is going to be fixing my mind to want to back it up Use it all the days of where all the day of all.

I don't know. Hey, up, help out. I'm just going to try to lose it. You know, my wife and I both have on the days that we're wrong. Hmm, in the dead dark night. Hey there, it's Jeff Merrick here. You know, my wife and I both have countless memories

from spending time discovering Canada. Well, I always come back to the summer of 2005. We were staying at a cottage on Lake Joseph here in Muscoca watching the Live 8 music festival in Barry on television. My buddy Jeremy Taggart, former drummer from Our Lady Peace, dropped by after his band's set and stayed the rest of the weekend at the cottage after the band's set and told some incredible backstage stories

about some amazing Canadian music icons. I will never forget that. And fast forward to today, I'm a hockey parent, and I feel like I'm always on the road with my family. Whether that means traveling across southern Ontario hockey ranks during the week or overnight at tournaments on select weekends. But what makes our hockey experience even more special is booking a place on Airbnb when we're on the road,

for overnight tournaments. All of this traveling got me to thinking, my home's just sitting empty when I could be hosting it on Airbnb instead. I'd simply put up my house on Airbnb, pre-select dates that I want to host, bam. It's practical, easy to manage, and it enables people like me to make some money while they're not at home. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb.ca slash host. Thank you.