The Sheet with Jeff Marek - Texas-Sized Shakeup? ft. Ed Jovanovski

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

In this episode of The Sheet, Jeff Marek breaks down some of the biggest storylines making waves across the NHL. He starts with the Dallas Stars, exploring the potential changes coming to the team after another disappointing playoff exit, including the idea that Jason Robertson could be on the trade block. Jeff also weighs in on recent comments from Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour about the traditional post-series handshake line and what they reveal about the evolving culture of the game. Later in the show, Jeff is joined by former Florida Panthers defenseman Ed Jovanovski to preview the highly anticipated Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers#NHL #TheSheet #JeffMarek #StanleyCupFinal #DallasStars #JasonRobertson #RodBrindAmour #EdJovanovski #FloridaPanthers #EdmontonOilers #HockeyTalk #SportsPodcastShout out to our sponsors!👍🏼 Fan Duel: https://www.fanduel.com/👍🏼Ninja Kitchen Canada: https://www.ninjakitchen.ca/products/ninja-crispi-4-in-1-portable-glass-air-fryer-cooking-system-zidFN101CGY?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=olv&utm_campaign=25Q2-Crispi&utm_content=en👍🏼Budweiser: https://www.budweiser.ca/ca_enReach 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.

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How are you feeling about this one? How are you feeling about this year's edition of the Stanley Cup final? Same as last year. I'll tell you what, the closer it gets, the more excited I am. Now normally I like two new teams every year, right? Normally I do. This year, there's a great and there's a compelling story for both teams because there's new personnel on both and both teams are better. And as much as like from the Florida point of view, I look at this one and I say the Florida Panthers in this generation are one of the best teams period.

I say the Florida Panthers in this generation are one of the best teams, period. But if the Florida Panthers come away from this era of hockey with only one Stanley Cup, how are we gonna feel about them? Sure, it's three Stanley Cup final appearances in a row, but if they only come away with one, how do we feel about this team? Do we put them in a sort of league

that includes a number of other teams? Even just in this era, right? Salary cap era, like teams that have won multiple cups. We put them in that same category or do we put them in the Anaheim Ducks, Carolina Hurricanes category because they only won one cup. Meanwhile, from the Edmonton Oilers, back to back Stanley Cup finals, if they don't win the Stanley Cup this year, how are we all feeling about Connor McDavid? And where is his position right now?

And you don't want, and I don't think anybody wants, if you're a fan of hockey, you wanna see your superstars do as good as they can and you want to see them win more than just individual prizes and you don't want Conor McDavid to join one of the loneliest clubs in hockey currently populated by players like Jerome McGinla and Henrik Lundqvist and for you ulcers Gilbert Perot and Marcel Dion. And Joe Thornton for that matter too. The greatest players to never win the Stanley Cup.

When you start talking about the elite level players like Conor McDavid, that's a club that he does not want to be in. And he got there last season, obviously we all know that. And we saw the reaction after the team lost and he couldn't come out to grab the Kahn Smythe trophy. You know, I was having a conversation with someone yesterday who brought up a really, really good point about the Edmundson Oilers. And even though, and again,

prognostications are prognostications. You go through who's got the better goal-tending, defense, depth, all of it, frontline players. There's one thing that I look at as a sort of intangible in all of this. And that is the Oilers know how much that burned last year and knows how that felt when they lost game seven to the Florida Panthers.

We have a lot to get to today and plenty on this show and yes, we're gonna get into what sort of set up a firestorm, set off a firestorm yesterday, all the discussion in my blog about Jason Robertson and the Dallas Stars. More on that in a couple of moments. Really quickly, Daily Outline, here's what's coming up on the program today.

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presentation of Budweiser. Budweiser is encouraging buds to make time for the playoffs, not excuses. Every goal, every check, every win is better enjoyed with your buds. Phone a bud, text a bud, ping a bud and call out their excuses for bailing on the playoffs. After all, the playoffs are the most wonderful time of the year. Make them count. When it's springtime, it's go time. And it's time for us to go to someone that I really enjoy talking to, someone that can

speak with a lot of authority when it comes to the Florida Panthers and the playoffs and the Stanley Cup final. He is Florida Panthers analyst, Ed Jovanovsky. He joins me now on the sheet. Ed, thanks so much for joining me today. How are you? How's lovely Florida? It's good. My little soggy last couple days, but as before, talking to you, I'm pumped. I can't wait till tomorrow.

Just the excitement building up and just going to be treated to some great hockey. I think we're listening. As just a hockey fan,, just going to be treated to some great hockey. Uh, I think we're listening to, uh, we, as, as just a hockey fan, I just wanted, whatever it is, I just want to see this thing go seven. Uh, last year was dynamic and exciting and a roller coaster and emotional and, and all of those things. But there's, there's a couple of things that I don't know that I've ever talked to you about this specifically.

There are two people that I wanna ask you about, and one stretches all the way back to your junior career. So when you were playing with the Windsor's Pitfires, the Detroit Junior Red Wings were coached by a 27 or 28 year old guy by the name of Paul Maurice. Now, I don't know how much interaction you would have had. I mean, you would have been 17, I think, at that point. But do you remember anything about Paul Maurice coaching, coaching in junior hockey? I don't. I just, you

know, I think with Mollys, it's been around forever. And I think I heard some the other day, at 27, he was hired by Hartford. So maybe he was even younger coaching in June. Wow. You know, one thing I do remember about him though, he has the same demeanor and, you know, on the bench. Obviously we've seen blowups and, and probably a player's well deserved that at the moment to get a little tongue lashing from their coach, but he's got his arms crossed, kind of sitting there very poised and it's kind of what you guys see today with him. Very well spoken coach.

He's got great one liners. He's, you know, he's, he's kind of having you guys see today with him. Yeah. Very well spoken coach. He's got great one liners. He's, you know, he's, he's kind of having fun doing it as well. But I think overall, I think when you look at him very calm and I think that relates well to his players, he doesn't panic. And I think that's something you either have. I played for Mark Crawford. I mean, it's kind of like, you know, you

kind of look at this. I kind of enjoyed it to tell you the truth. I mean, it was fun kicked in the back and come on, Joel. Well, let's go. We need you tonight type of thing. But you know, I think Mo has a good control of his guys and does a great job. He's one of the most interesting people in the game and articulate and passionate and knowledgeable. Um knowledgeable and a great speaker. He last, I mean, last year in the playoffs, he became must-see TV. Like everyone had this one in to the Paul Maurice Pressers.

The other person I want to ask you about is Matthew Kachuk. Now, correct me if I'm wrong here. I'm going to go out on a little bit of a fishing trip. I believe that was Keith Kachuk who you had your first NHL fight with. Is that true? A regular season. It could be, you know, I missed the first 11 games of my rookie year. I decided to fight Shani in the last exhibition band and I, and it wasn't

because I punched him in the face. It was, I punched him in the helmet and I broke my hand. Yeah. Well, you know, I remember in Winnipeg. Yeah. So I fought it and left my right glove on and no. So, you know, I remember in Winnipeg, yeah. So I fought it and I left my right glove on. And Keith and I had become really, really good friends. Of course.

You know, just his time, you know, down here in Florida, got in touch with Matthew early on and try to help him out here as much as I can here in Florida. So, yeah, we reminisced about that over a beer at the casino one night. Of course. I mean, how, how could you not?

Like, and the thing about Matthew and, and he kind of went, and this is all after four nations, obviously, like Matthew Kachak just took off as far as like popularity and, and where his place is in the game and someone that you build around and, and market around second generation player, we've all told the story, but the Kachak family's been, story's been told over and over and over again. What's your relationship like with Matthew Kachak? I mean, given that you, you know, you competed hard against his father for so many years, here he is second generation player in Florida with the Panthers.

Like what are the natures of your, of your conversation with Matthew like? Well, they're really good. Like I said, I think right when he, right when he got traded here, um, What are the natures of your conversation with Matthew like? Well, they're really good. Like I said, I think right when he, right when he got traded here, um, I was in touch with him and just helped him on certain areas. But as far as like, you know, we play golf together, go for dinners and, and, um, hang out with them, obviously the age difference, but you know, in sports, if you've been in hockey, I mean, we're not that

far removed kind of from this, you know, generation of players that are coming up and I get it. Yeah. I played against his dad. So it might seem a little bit older, but he's so mature, you know, that's one thing you look at math. He's, he's very well spoken, very thoughtful. Um, you know, articulate, like you, you know, talk about Maurice,

same thing out of Matthew thinks the game really well. And it's not only just hockey with him. I think everything you can have a conversation, you know, just about anything from him, he's well versed in a lot of different areas. And I think for him, uh, you know, coming from his own mouth, I think having the opportunity when trade happened, you see the smile on his face. He's so pumped to be here. And I tell you what, Jeff, he's become a Florida sports icon. Oh yeah. I mean, it's, I mean, I turn it on the local radio here and, and, and listen to all these guys talk about, and where does Matthew rank of all players? Obviously Danny Marino, you got Dwayne Wade and this guy, but you know,

the opportunity here, what's in front of these guys and possibility of, of hoisting another Stanley cup, not only here in Florida, but we've seen it in USA hockey, you know, Matthew Chuck is at another level right now and well deserved. And, um, but he's still humble pie. You know, it's gotta be, I know it's, it's sort of like a, uh, a knee-jerk and almost, I don't want to say it's a lazy take because it's legitimate, but there are certain advantages, tax advantages to playing in the state of Florida. But that's always existed. Like that, that's, that's always been there. I always think it's called a lazy take. What's that? I sound like a lazy take. that's always been there. I always think it's called.

What's that? I'm selling like, no, but he, but he, but he, but he, but here's my, but here's my point. Like at the end of the day, you have to put together a team. Like I know that the Stanley cup is going through the, the state of Florida, going back to 2020, but at the end of it, you have to put together a team. And I, and I look at what Bill Zito and still like,

we're still seeing, you know, the fumes of Dale talent. Every time you look at Alexander Barkoff, I think of the 2013 draft and him going second overall. And I think to myself, it's not just the tax advantage here. Anyone can say that and do that, but when you look at how this team was put together, what jumps out at you?

Because it seemed to me that the minute that Zito took over and he brought in Patrick Hornquist, that was the message that we want to be tough to play against. We're going to bring in nasty players that are hard and miserable to play against. And almost every move that Zito made after that points to the Patrick Hornquist deal. Right. And I think you're exactly right. I mean, there's a lot been said about like hornies. He's part of the organization now. And I think when you have a team that's kind of right there and you have your

nucleus of players, why not bring in a cup champion, you know, to show if you need a little bit extra, Hey, this is how it's done. This is how I prepare. You know, you talk, you hear the stories about Hornquist, the way he prepares in the gym, you know, where he thinks the game he's always in front of the net takes a beating, you know, and just walls out there and competes. And I think when you bring that to a group, yeah, it's got to rub off. Cause you've seen a guy that's one cups pay the price.

So, you know, you know, the sacrifices there, you know what it takes. And I think it's rubbed off all all these guys, same like you talked to Barki, same thing with yogurt. I mean, a lot of things that these guys pick up. And now you got London Lundell loose, Ryan and picking Barkov spring. So yeah, I think when you when you said, yeah, Dale Tallon had a piece of this and obviously Bill Zito. I mean, the guys genius. I mean, I, I mean, I don't know. I mean, you got to take some chances, right?

Of course you give up some draft picks, you get some guys in there. And again, now this year you feel like you have an opportunity to do so. So what do you do? The unthinkable ringing Bradmar Shannon and you put him into the line up. You know, and, and your lineup. And he's face, I mean, and listen, Seth Jones, uh, to me that, and that series against the Toronto Maple Leafs, like Seth Jones, game in and game out, like the decision, the decision-making, the like everything that he did, um, you

know, I went to three of the games and it was like, I couldn't get my eyes off of Seth Jones. Now I have a positional default. I always, you know, while I'm watching defense but more than anything else is I'm sure you are as well too Ed, but like Jones was incredible. But here's the thing that I really find interesting when you talk about players and the way they play

rubbing off on everybody else. I remember Doug McClain telling me this story. I remember I asked Doug, I'm like, man, I remember you matching, you know, 18, 19 year old Ed Jovanovsky up against Eric Lindros and the Philadelphia Flyers. And Doug's like, Ed asked for that. Like Jovo came and said, I want Lindros. And he said that was like infectious all throughout that room during that stand, that first Stanley Cup run for the Florida Panthers. What do you remember from that? And what's going through your mind when you say to Doug McLean, I want Lindros. Well, I, you know, yeah, as, as a young player, right.

You feel your game and I think your matchup, you know, biggie to his credit, he wasn't going to beat you at the arousal dads. It'll try to go through you. So I felt like the matchup there, you know, would be a lot better than say the conference finals worth merit with Mario Inaugur, where I kind of struggled a little bit. Right. So I think at that moment, it just, listen, I, I said to coach, yeah, I liked to have that matchup.

I just didn't want to screw it up at that point because you just want me to walk there and play your best. And, and it's one of those things when you do, we just have the confidence and it almost relates a little bit kind of what we saw with, with Jones and Echblad and these guys that played, you know, the playoffs, just often it's, you know, getting better. And I think you put players like that into a structured system and you can kind of see, you know, what these players can be like. And I think taking nothing away from, you know, Chicago, you know, where, where Seth

was, but you know, you're just kind of ingrained with that losing your mentality. And it's to get over that slide. It is what is we've all been a part of one of those teams. And I think coming to this situation, he could just be a piece of the puzzle. You can play such Jones, get the puck out, move it up, jump up when you feel you can and just play your game. And he's excelled at it here. Let me ask you one, one question about your, your, the Florida panthers team

that you played on and that, and that Stanley cup run, and it's not going to be about the rats, it's going to be about the ice. You mentioned Jagger and Lemieux. I remember when I worked with Doug, he told me, yeah, it's like, we had to slow down Mario, I had to slow down Jagger. So I'd get the Zamboni driver to dump extra water on the ice, essentially really slow things down and turn into like one.

It wasn't ice as much as it was like a slushy out there that you get at 7-11. What do you remember about trying to slow down the Penguins? Well, I tell you what, they were, mean, I going up and down the lineup. I mean, I know there were just a stack group and, and, you know, pulling off a game seven, you know, in the igloo was, was, uh, something else. I mean, so, well, yeah, that was one of the series.

I think you look up, we, you know, we didn't really match up great because you look at the seasons that these guys had. And then, you know, but we had a close knit group. We had the grinders, you know, a guy like Brian Skrull and Mike Huff, Tommy Fitz, Mel and B, Terry Karkner, Svela, these guys that played a simple game that can frustrate the heck out of you. And I think that's kind of moving forward onto kind of what we're going to see as we move forward here with dry settle David. These two are the best on the planet. No one's disputing that. I think how are you going to slow them down?

And the Panthers seem to always have some sort of game plan kind of ready to go versus these guys. You're not going to take away all their chances. They're stars for a reason. They will get their opportunity, but it's kind of a little bit of a similarity. And that way where you try to do your best to take down the beast and you just got to play face hockey. I'm glad you mentioned Robert Shfala. Like the guy was the guy.

Oh, and you know, I remember talking to the Florida Panthers dentist a couple of years ago at All-Star and he's talking about him getting a slap shot in the face and coming back for the third period. And just like, can't get that guy out of, I have so many great memories of watching Robert. I tell you that with a guy like that, he was, you know, Slovakia. He had his, you know, his family come visit quite often. I don't know how, I didn't even know what was going on at the time, but I know there was many incidents that we had to put them in the back of the line and practice. Put a bit too much fun the night before.

Why call you? What did the Vicks paper rub on the chest? So the coach couldn't smell your breath. Oh, they knew exactly what was going on, but they couldn't stand anything because he was our best defenseman and he came to play no matter how hung he was that night. Oh yeah. He came to play, but super guy, just as this is a horse type of player can play in a situation. 230, 240, solid. He's a great player, great teammate.

I'll tell you what, you know what, what's interesting about this, this Panthers team is I look at like, I, I had like what I, I still think the best compliment you can pay a hockey player is saying this guy could play in any era. I still think that that's like maybe the best compliment you could pay a player. And I look at this Florida Panthers team, and there are so many guys. And you know, it's, it's, it's Barkov and it's Ekblad and now it's Seth Jones. And this, the goaltender could play in any, any era that that's obvious. There's a Brad Marsham. Like there's so many guys that I look at and I say, this guy could play in an

uptempo era, this guy could play in the dead puck era, this guy could play in the seventies where half the league should be in prison. Like so many different eras, all these guys in the Panthers could have played in. Like what do you see when you look at this team? Cause I look at a bunch of guys that could have played no matter what the era is dominated by, you know, Gordy or Wayne or Mario or whomever else. Right. And it's good that you brought that up because I, if you, if you want to play a rough and tumble game, the Panthers can give you that. But most times they're initiating that game because that's when they're the most effective.

We talk about for check, getting in on the four check, good, good F one, turning pucks over and creating that offensive chaos where they're really good at, you know, sometimes you get away from that, you play a little run and gun hockey while you go up and down their lineup and they have guys that can score on, on any line. So, um, they, they put the work in, they much prefer when coach Maurice came to Florida, one of the things that he talked about was getting your defense side of the game, right? Because that's what wins championships. Took them a couple of years, but they tasted it.

Eventually you win the Stanley cup and, and you can see how letter tight they were, um, you know, as a group and, but, um, you, you hear it around the league bunch of dogs. I don't hunt you down and hunt you down. And I feel like, you know, they kind of put the foot down on your throat. That's what they do. And that's what killer instinct is. And that's what this team has. And, um, I tell you what, it's been, it's been an unbelievable watch here for years. You know, this group, this core group, especially that's been here.

You know, it's, uh, it's tough now to keep Sylvain Lefebvre a secret, right? One of the assistant coach who handles the defense, when you look at all the players that have come through, uh, all the players that he's helped make better. Um, I think of, and you know, I don't know how much you know, Brandon Montour is shaving off

off of his contract and sending it to Sylvain Lefebvre, but like, he did a great job with him, a great job, um, with, you know, Brandon Montour is shaving off off of his contract and sending it to Sylvain Lefebvre, but like he did a great job with him, a great job, um, with, you know, everybody, Gustav Forsling, the waiver acquisition finds himself, now he's one of the best defensemen in the NHL. Seth Jones, we just talked about fits into this blue line, hand to gloves so perfectly and, you know, Nico Michola, like look at the teams that he was with before, he's a different guy with the Florida Panthers. Do you have a thought or two on Sylvan Lafay through all of this?

Because I think everyone, everyone in and around the league is really starting to notice here and he's been, you know, he's been a coach for a long time. Yeah, he has been, you know, a cup champion, solid defensive type player, uh, understands the game and, and, and when you look at kind of the turnover, yeah, that this group is how you look at the turnover, yeah, that this group is how you look at a guy like Nate Schmidt comes into this situation here, he's a plug and play. Here's our system, this is what we want you to do.

You don't have to do too much, get the puck up. And when you have room to skate, skate, join the play when you can. No one's limiting these guys offensive ability. Nico Mekala, it's amazing what this guy's done. And sometimes I think they got to pull the reins back a little bit on him, you know, cause he gets the old happy feet going and really gone, but he's been really effective. He covers a lot of ice in the defensive zone, cool a cough, rejuvenated his career coming back to Florida. So yeah, so yeah, I mean, the credit a lot of the times goes to, to Mo. There's early, so he's kind of say on a lot of things, but I like when Mo kind

of deflects over to Jamie and to, to Sylvain on the credit that these guys do the hours that these guys put in and the individual work that they do. Cause I could reflect as a player too. And for viewers watching, they might think, well, I'm going to be a do the hours that these guys put in in the individual work that they do. Cause I could reflect as a player too. And for viewers watching, they might think that there's not a lot of that going on. Lindy rough spent probably 10 hours a week of video with me, you know, as a young defenseman, you know, so it does happen there. You're seeing a lot of video and you know, you care about your players, especially, especially, you know, younger defensemen as you want to develop and mold into the player that they can be.

But, um, these assistant coaches, all of them, even Tuomo Ruto and all these guys have, have done a phenomenal job here working all together. Man, Tuomo Ruto was a tough player. I thought he was gonna be like the next great man. Injuries were an issue. I thought he was gonna be like one of the great power forwards in the NHL. Every time I look at Tuomo Ruto, I'm like, oh, he's so-

I came with his brother, he's a red. Oh yeah. They were not shy. They were not a shy family. Okay, one more question for you. Here we are like 24 hours before game one. We're all looking forward to it. In your mind, how does this series look? Like does it look just the same as last season?

A chase story as one team goes up, three bagelers? Like what does this one look like to you? Because again, it feels to me like a seven gamer. And I can talk myself into either team winning the Stanley cup here, but what does it look like to you in your mind? That's a tough one, Jeff. I mean, you got two excellent teams, right? You can see the Oilers, especially the last, you know, a couple months

over the year, just the defensive game really tightened up. Darnell nurses is playing a lot more defensive minded and taking care of the puck. You add Klingberg who called me a couple of years ago, asking me about this hip surgery, you know, he's, he's back in the game. And what a surprise he's been for that organization. It's been really good. And you hear a lot about the wallman trade.

So you look at defensively, I think this team is, is figuring it out. Um, their goaltender has been a lot better late. So the matchups are there, right? You look up and down the lineup, you talk a lot about depth while the oilers are talking about, you know, dry, so they'll make David aren't doing it every night. It's nice to see everybody chip in. That's kind of been the fourth day of the Florida Panthers. Everybody kind of, you know, get the job done and contributing.

I said it was going to be a tight series last series versus Carolina. I still, I'm going to move forward. I was moving to the final. Yeah. Uh, I'm going to say this, um, this series will be tight. Um, I, I don't think the series start until a road team wins. Yep. So see how teams, uh, protect home ice, but I know the Panthers are believing themselves just like the Oilers do. And I think we're going to see a, a Acaba Stanley Cup final.

I think it's going to be a great one. Listen, thanks for parking time with me today. And I always appreciate catching up, enjoy the series and, oh, by the way, what's the market like with this? Like I was, I went to a couple of games in the series. And, uh, oh, by the way, what's the market like with this? Like I was, I went to a couple of games, um, in the Toronto series. And, uh, it was remarkable. Like the minute you get off the plane, you start to see

Panthers jerseys everywhere. What's the market doing with this one? Well, last question, then we'll let you get on with your day. Well, it's been unbelievable. I mean, it's, it's been, it's been obviously the talk of the town. And I think, you know, representing and the, in the cup final for three years in a row, I mean, that, that says a lot. I mean, it says a lot with organization, everyone involved in and do it.

I think it's a little bit easier right now, selling season tickets for open guys that struggled back in the day. Yeah. It was the sell, but deservingly. so the team has worked hard right from the top to bottom, right? It starts from the top, right? You got ownership right down. Yeah.

That was making player decisions, but the market's great, Jeff. I mean, it really is. And it's good to see the Panthers on the top of the totem pole right now in this, in a sports driven market. And I just love the way they play. Like I love that that style of hockey is in the NHL. And now you know what's going to happen. Everybody's going to try to play like the Florida Panthers. And if I would have said that to you 15 years ago, like, Hey, what can

we learn from the Florida Panthers? And now everyone like you would have said, like, what are you talking about? Now everybody wants to play. It's a, first of all, it's a really fun style to watch. You can't play it 82 games a year, but you sure can do it in the playoffs You sure yeah, you gotta go with all works. Yeah, I gotta go with what works and I think the guys believe that now and It's worked for him. So, you know why chain

Everything's we'll see me. Everything's come together. Listen, enjoy the final great catching up with you again. Ed you be well We'll kill we'll check back soon Alright, Jeff. Love what you do. I told you that before man. Keep up. I know work Beats working for a living. I just want to tell old Windsor Spitfire stories with you going back to the old barn But we got time with it. Well, we'll do that another time. We'll do that another time. Thanks. Ed. We appreciate it We'll do that another time. We'll do that another time. Thanks Ed, we appreciate it. All right man, take care. Did you know socks are one of the most requested clothing items by organizations addressing homelessness? Bombas also makes incredibly comfy underwear and t-shirts,

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at Guelph at that time, and that's when it would have been Jeff O'Neill and Todd Bertuzzi and these guys with Guelph. And Ed was a rookie on the Windsor Spitfires. I remember reading one of the game day programs. I'm still stunned at this fact to this day. Ed was a rookie on the Windsor Spitfires. I remember reading in one of the game day programs. I'm still stunned at this fact to this day. He never started playing hockey till he was 11. He never started. He wasn't like, you know,

most people like start skating when they're like, you know, three or four or five or whatever. He didn't start until he was 11 years old. Became a first overall draft pick played over a thousand games in the NHL and was a feared player when he played and wanted the big assignments that was a Joe Panoski I have all day for that guy and I have all day for this series Edmonton Oilers facing off against the Florida Panthers one more empty calorie day here today, and then we get back to Stanley Cup action Okay, Zack We're not gonna talk about vasectomies again today, are we? I don't think so, but we'll see

We'll see where this one goes. I got a lot of comments about that various DMs and tweets about it yesterday One thing I want to I want to get to, I mentioned before we got to Ed, that a couple of things from the last round that really sort of popped for people as far as discussion points, one was the Peter DeBoer goalie pull,

and I do have a couple of sort of minor points to make on that one in Peter DeBoer's defense. I want to get there in a second. I had an interesting conversation with with a goalie coach yesterday from a different team. But the other thing was handshakes and Paul Maurice's conversation with Rod Bryndemore about this is just for the players I want to pull out. I don't want to do this. This is just for the guys. It's just for the players. The men that wear the buckets and men put the skates, etc.

Do we have the Rod Brindamore comment about that? If you can fire this up saying he understood Paul Marisa's point of view. Rod says that he wasn't expecting it. He said it was for the players. And Rod says, of course it is. You know, these are the ones that are battling out there. Quote, I guess my take on it now, sitting back on it and reflecting, we talk about gracious losing and I've had some pretty impactful memories and moments in that line as a coach going through it. Even in this playoff run with the Devils,

I had four or five guys that were Hurricanes and I still think of them like that. So it meant something for me to go through that there and shake their hand. For me, I'm not thinking about a TV moment. I get enough of that every time there's a penalty. That's a great line. So that's not in it for me. Great line, Byron. I think moving forward I'll probably go back to it just because it's a sign of respect. That's the way I look at it. We're not out there on the ice battling, but we're right there with these guys.

Okay, so clearly two different points of view. Let me see if I can play Switzerland in this one. So Paul Marie says he's against it. That's just for the players. That's their special moment. They're the ones out there competing. Okay, I understand that and I understand that code and I get it. For Paul that works, cool. Rod Brindemore says it's a respect thing, he wants to shake their hands and you brought

the New Jersey Devils example, number of ex-Carolina Hurricane players out there and he wants to shake their hand as a matter of respect. I understand that too. Here's where I'm at. I thought about this this afternoon when I saw Paul, when I saw Rod Brindimore's comments, how about this? Why don't you let the players decide who they want on the ice? No? You don't like that one? How about like players like we want our coaches out there or we don't want our coaches out there? If it really is for the players then maybe the players should make the decision. And what if the Florida Panthers, what if Alexander Barkov and Aaron Ekblad and Sergey Bobrowski said, yeah, Paul, we want you and Jamie and Sylvain out here as part of Handshake Alley.

Would that mitigate anything? If it really is for the players, to Paul Maurice's point, then shouldn't they decide who's in Handshake Alley? Or am I being just too obvious about this one? That if it's for the players, then they should decide, and players could decide to have coaches there or not. I submit to the jury. I think it's a good point actually, Jeff.

I think that players making a decision is a good point there. I don't... Correct me if I'm wrong, in junior junior hockey don't the coaches just stay at the bench and shake each other's hands right and then the players could a lot of times I watch I feel like I watch players skate over series ending where they go and then the players skate over. I like that. I don't mind that yeah like I think that that's an okay way to go about it. It doesn't make the line excessive if you do want to shake the hand you can if you don't it doesn't come across as disrespect like you didn't like you're not going into the

handshake and like whoo doing the little like slick back then not she unless you're Milan Lucic and Dale Weiss unless you're Lucic and Dale Weiss but otherwise like you have that Marty Berdure and Shawnee on Marty Berdure and Sean Avery was that When Marty refused to shake his hand after the New Jersey Rangers series, so there was one of those like yeah easy now, buddy But that's also that you guys telling the stories of the guys who just skate right off the ice and Berkey saying he doesn't like it Would these guys go in there and hug each other and smile and stuff? Because you just have to war you're furious that your seasons over. I get all of that. I at the end of a playoffs or a season or whatever used to have a similar

takeaway where it was like, screw this guy. This guy just ended the season or my opportunity at winning, et cetera. I do like the idea of just having the option to go and shake the coach's hand at the bench because it's there if you want it it's not a disrespectful thing if you don't and it doesn't make the line for the TV moment as Paul Maurice wanted to call it as Rod said he gets enough of it doesn't make that TV moment taken away from if with the lines being 10 million people long. So I think that that's just fine. Okay. Um... Had someone I'm going to use this as a dovetail to the Dallas

Stars. Had someone DM me yesterday saying what would happen if the Dallas Stars, if Jim Nill went to Eric Tulski and said we want our two first round picks back from the Ranton deal and we'll give you

Jason Robertson. One year left on Robertson. We're at a very very nice number. Now he has arbitration rights at the end of it. Yeah. Pause on that. Pause on that one. So I want to I want to clear a couple of things up here. I want to talk a little bit about Dallas. Cause I put this in the blog. I didn't know it was gonna turn into this humongous storm, but let's put up the Dave Penaute tweet here before we start to get into it. Because listen, there are a lot of conversations

that are happening in Dallas about what to do and how to change things and how to get there. And right now they have just under $5 million worth of cap space to do and how to change things and how to get there and right now they have just under five million dollars worth of cap space to do it. So this was what Dave we had on the program yesterday talking about Marner throwing up on on Twitter. Noise out of Dallas about Peter DeBoer. Per multiple sources players are not pleased with how we handled several situations during the Western Conference final along with postgame five and exit media remarks told players' voice concerns

during an internal exit interviews, during internal exit interviews, sorry. The board has one year left on his contract. So I'm not disputing any of that. As a matter of fact, I believe all of that to be true. I think there are major discussions going on at a lot of levels, and I think that the owner is not exactly thrilled at the way

that things have played out. Now, Tom Gellardi is the owner of the Dallas Stars, and Tom Gellardi very, very, first of all, he's a very passionate and generous owner. Like, everything, like during this run, during this run for the Dallas Stars, where there have been many times where we've said, this team is good enough to win the Stanley Cup. Like I looked at the Dallas Stars this year, multiple points during the season and said this team's gonna win the Stanley Cup.

This is gonna be the Dallas Stars second Stanley Cup going back to 1999 when they when they won for the first time. This team is just that good. You know there's no sort of you know visible major flaws here especially after what Jim Nill did at Trade Deadline. But there is very much a vibe of, okay, have we sort of plateaued here and given that the owner has done essentially and given essentially whatever the team has wanted or needed both with the team off the ice, all of it, right? Like this owner has written a lot of checks for this team.

I don't think this owner is thrilled that he's not getting the ROI, the return on investment, that he's wanted, and that is the Stanley Cup. So I think right now, in the Stars organization, the conversation is revolving around how do we get past this Western Conference final hump? How do we take this to a level where this is a team that can compete consistently, not unlike Florida,

not unlike Edmonton, or back in the Stanley Cup final, consistently get to the Stanley Cup final, year in and year out, with a roster that should be able to fight for the Stanley Cup final year in and year out with a roster that should be able to fight for the Stanley Cup and qualify for the Stanley Cup. Like this was the year, like there've been a number of years where, and I really do respect Jim Nill for this, where he's recognized that they're not ready yet. You may look at it and say like there's a lot of stretches where the Dallas Stars will string together a lot of wins and you'll say, all right, this team is ready, and Nil has read it perfectly. Not yet, not yet, not yet.

But they're at a place right now where you're starting to see the veterans age out, Ben, Se-Yen, most obviously, and some of the kids aren't quite ready yet to step into spots. They're in a really interesting situation right now in Dallas. Nil reads and recognizes that and says, alright, this is the year to do it. Like when we first started doing this show, the Dallas Stars were very much, and they ended up getting

Mikko Ratnan, which was the biggest fish at catching the biggest fish at Trade Deadline. They were in go for it, big game hunting mode. You know, there were, there was a lot for it big game hunting mode. You know there were there was a lot of talk about them maybe filling you know going to the grocery store and only having to go down one aisle and that aisle was called the Calgary Flames and we wondered about Nazam Kadri and we wondered about Rasmus Anderson but the problem with that was Calgary had a competitive year and none of those guys were going anywhere. Conrad wasn't gonna let any of those guys. So Jim Nill looked elsewhere and it was

the deal with the San Jose Sharks and Cody Cece and Mikhail Granland. Granland was awesome. Granland was fantastic from the remainder of the regular season and into the playoffs. And then the big one and it like trust me like moving Logan Stankhoven was a major deal for that organization there were many people that know the organization well but it said Logan Stankhoven will never be traded that is how well thought of Logan Stankhoven is and was rather in the Dallas Stars organization when someone calls you up and says do you want a top 10 player in the NHL and Miko Rantanen? Yeah. And it's gonna cost you some draft

capital and I'm sorry but Logan Stankhoven it's real tough to make the case where you say no because we can't trade Logan Stankhoven. Especially where they were in their window or are in their window. Exactly. Especially. Exactly. Now the interesting thing about that is we always consider,

and one of the fascinating things about Dallas, and this is where you really have to compliment not just Jim Nell, but Joe McDonnell as well, and Rich Peverely, and the scouting staffs, they've been able to open up a number of different windows.

You can make the argument now that by acquiring Mikko Ratanen, they've opened yet another window. Yet they find themselves now in a situation where now Jamie Ben, his contract expires at the end of the season. There's a number of players. And Granland still has an expiring contract. Matt Deshane is on an expiring contract as well. Pork, but he's an RFA and to Donoff, who Peter DeBoer really relied on and the playoffs seems to really like. They have just under $5 million of cap space

and they wanna change this team, not profoundly, right? It's still gonna be a competitive team. I'm not talking about taking a step back, but how do you get over the hump? And the one thing that a lot of people, people that I talk to, keep coming back to is could Jason Robertson and his $7.75 million contract, which is a very very nice number, considering the production to get out of Jason Robertson, very, it's a very, very nice number considering the production to get out of Jason Robertson.

Could, is this maybe, I don't want to say the only move, but is it probably the most obvious move that the Dallas Stars could make in order to get a return that can help them get over the hump. Now, do they allocate resources? And one of the things I mentioned in the blog was that they go after someone like Aaron Echblad and all of a and Also, oh one thing we should consider too Thomas Harley is doing major raise at the end of next season as well That is going to be a whopper of a contract but do you look at bringing in someone like Aaron Ekblad signing him on July 1st and Turning yourselves into one of the best defensive units in the NHL period One of the things that a lot of people are wondering about is in order to make any of these moves, one you want to first

of all find someone that's going to send you things back that doesn't chew up any cap space. My thought on a lot of this is, do they use Jason Robertson to A, create cap space and B, reacquire draft capital? And that's why I positioned that from that DM that I got. If Jim Nell called Eric Tolsky and said, I want our two first round picks back and I'll give you Jason Robertson, would you do it? So that seems to be like the one area, like the more conversations that I have, a lot of them around the Dallas Stars, a lot of them revolve around, it looks like this could be the move that Dallas makes in order to be able to have the

flexibility to change this team enough that they can get over the Western Conference final hump. There is still a question about Peter DeBoer as well. Now one thing I will say and like last night like Pan Yota put out that tweet last night and then Kevin Weeks put out the eyeballs at the American Airlines Center as well. As I go, geez here we go and it's sort of yesterday was a you know like the Dallas Stars abla, here we go. And it sort of, yesterday was like the Dallas Stars, a blaze kind of day. The thing about the goalie poll,

now I had a conversation before our show yesterday with one goalie coach from another team who said, I think everyone's reading this goalie poll thing wrong. And I said, well, I've never seen a goalie poll and a timeout at the same time. And this person said, yeah, that that's unique and that's awkward. And I said, like, the way that he did it was like, came off as really callous, like Ottinger skating back to the nets.

And he gets that get back here. And this goalie coach said to me it sounds like what happened here is Casey De Smith normally when I when I when a goalie gets the idea that he's getting the hook the other goalie's already jumped on the ice Casey De Smith hadn't jumped on the ice he said he was the lead they had to go back and get something or put something on there was because if you look at the during that time out De Smith isn't jumping on the ice. Yeah. He said if the Smith had already jumped on the ice that would have solved all of it. So it

wasn't just that spontaneous as he's skating back then De Boer made the decision. The problem was according to one goalie coach he believed that De Smith hadn't gotten over the boards quick enough and that's why Jake Oughton-tinger thought, oh, well, I'm going back in. Now, the mitigating factor to all of this is two, and I'm still surprised at this as well, I thought he was going back in the second.

I think a lot of us did too. And this one goalie coach that I talked to said, yeah, I thought he was going back to this in the second period too. That was, he said, it didn't surprise me that he got the hook because it was, he needed the jolt. But the bigger surprise was him still being on the bench in the second and the third. That was the big shock. So that,

that's what I wanted to mention about the Dallas stars today. Okay. I'm going to push back on this. Sure. I understand what you're saying about DeSmith, the DeSmith thing. And I'm on, I'm on the exact same page as you that A I thought he was going back in in the second B Go to the pole was like fine. Whatever I get what he was doing there my counterpoint to this is You just called the timeout the guy was beside you you could have told him or said to them to Smith is going in Like

Otter you're done. First of all, whatever. The point that this person I was talking to is, you don't have to say it to the goalie. The goalie sees the backup jumping over the boards and you're Peter DeBoer at that time. You don't want to waste time. Again, I'm guessing you don't want to waste time by having a conversation with the goaltender as opposed to I need to address my players here Because we're down to Cobb after two shots and I can't worry about the goalie. I've already made that decision

He's got a seat of Smith coming up coming to come on off the bench And so he's got a no, I guess problem is that this problem is according to this one person is to Smith either had to Get something was late getting over the boards and that's why it came off a lot harsher Than it was intended It was late getting over the boards and that's why it came off a lot harsher Than it was intended. I know everyone wants a pile on Peter de Boer right now and I get it I understand it but this one goalie coach said here this might be one mitigating factor here and We have no one less Casey Dismith or or Peter de Boer comments on it Yeah, no, I don't know but and look I'm not trying to do this to pile on Peter DeBoer. I do like him as a coach, but I just, again, I think that it's like, takes two seconds.

He could have like, ripped the players. And also, let's go in hypothetical here, Jeff. Imagine you're in that timeout, which also we've all acknowledged was a unique situation to call the timeout and pull the goalie. So, the manager's also not going in there to think thinking that's gonna be coming. And he says at the end of it, all the players are there, they're all listening, they're all like, holy shit, what's going on?

And then all of a sudden he goes, order, you're done. And then you're like, oh. You know, that's it. Again, it's a hypothetical. Maybe that's just how my mind works and not anybody else's. but you throw that one in there and all the players are sitting around going, whoa, what the, what? He's coming out?

And then that sends an extra message. I don't know. Maybe you missed opportunity. John Bankart, if they want to shock the team, show them Jeff's legs. I'm wearing pants today, by the way. You shamed me into putting pants on on the show. My bad for throwing the chucks up on the table yesterday. Anyway, I just thought I just wanted to throw, listen, there are a lot of things that are

on the table in Dallas right now and you have an owner that's very not pleased with how things have turned out. So we'll see what happens. I don't think any final decisions have been made yet. Do you think he's asked the league? Check his email for press release from the Dallas Stars. Exactly. You think he's asked the league how many cups they hand out each year? Yeah, it's Berkey. I called the league again, Jeffy. They told me only handed out one cup.

How many pucks they playing with Berkey? Um, I checked again. Only playing with one puck. Again this year? Yeah, just one puck. Someone mentioned that a while ago. I was going to bring it up to you here on the program as just sort of lobbing it out there as like goofy ideas. Um, it'll never happen. But how do you like the idea of like if it it gets to like goofy over times, you throw out an extra puck.

Like, we're in like the sixth overtime, you throw out a second puck. Oh, there's a, no, no, stuff like that is way too far, Jeff. Come on, there's two pucks. You know, it's like when you do the shootout in men's league league and or when you have like really little and they get the same time. Yeah, because you got like ice is expensive. They have other teams coming on. Yeah. You gotta watch the same time. Yeah. Yeah, those are good. That's always good. No. That's a hard no. It's a hard no. I'm not open to that one at all. There's a lot of options you probably could have thrown out. That one, hard no.

Okay, hard no for you on that one. Alright, let's get to what we're gonna do here with no games tonight tonight cuz I got a couple of points to make and I think you do as well The sheet is powered as you know by now by FanDuel. Man, I really hope FanDuel was fine with our conversation yesterday The sheet is powered by FanDuel. Oh and the same game Parlay make every moment more on FanDuel People sent me pictures of scissors yesterday. FanDuel proud to fans to the major sports moments that matter to them. And you and I had an interesting text exchange about handing off the cup. If the Oilers win, who does Connor McDavid pass it to? And if you're Sasha Barkov, who do you hand it to on the Florida Panthers? Now, I think FanDuel has a line on this.

I wanna get there in a couple of seconds. So my thought on this one, for me, it's kind of obvious for Edmonton, I think, and that's Corey Perry, which would be his second Stanley Cup, 40 years old. Now, I have an even bigger hockey fantasy for this one. Here's my hockey fantasy. And I know that Corey Perry still does want to keep playing.

He's mentioned that a number of different times. But he's not doing it for the money. I always wonder if like, the minute he wins another Stanley Cup, he retires. And anyone that's listened to any of my nonsense for however many years has probably heard me talk about this before. And I'm waiting for someone in hockey to finally do it.

Corey Perry wins the Stanley Cup, does a lap, skates to center ice, puts the cup on the ice, takes his skates off, leaves them at center ice, and walks off. skates off, leaves them at center ice and walks off. You said this one before. You don't like art. That's your problem young man because that is the way you end a career. You leave your skates at center ice right beside the Stanley Cup. Tell me that's not a glorious picture. Yes it is but here's the problem with this and I this is no problem I think this one no no no there's problem this is where this does

not work especially given who Corey Perry is if this goes in the order you want it to and or expected to maybe he's yeah and then he gets it first yeah I know a bunch of other guys I don't gonna get the cup too I know yeah yeah and and and he is effectively stealing the Stealing the moment taking the moment absorbing the oxygen of the moment and that I don't think is the kind of guy that he is From his teammates and I he would not do that. He would have to in that situation Take it last Very very last that would be kind of funny. He waits off to the side and everyone's

like, Oh, Perry's getting it next. Nope. Name the player that comes out. How about Perry gets it twice then? Or he waits until the end and everyone skates off and then he just takes the skater. I get it again. It's like a snake draft. You get two picks. How about he goes to the Zamboni door, takes his skates off, leaves them, or at the bench, and then just walks off carrying the cup. And that's it. And he goes into the darkness of the tunnel. To all the Corey Perry. And he's holding the cup. Kaiser Soze. the cup. For Florida I originally thought Brad Marshand, it would have been his second cup 37 years old and then I thought Seth Jones been around the NHL

for a long time and Seth Jones was also in Alexander Barkov's draft class in 2013. Barkov was taken second and Jones was taken fourth. There's a lot of talk about Seth Jones going first that year to Colorado. So I'm gonna go team Seth Jones as opposed to team Brad Marchand on that one. What about you? Okay, well I know what these are, so I'm not gonna say it because I've looked at the list

and what they have. So I do wanna ask you this quickly though. Okay. Give me your three. So if it's not Perry, it's who? And if it's not that guy, it's who? Give me those three for Edmonton. So you have Perry, one is you, you think it would be. But if it's not Perry, who would be the guy to get it first?

Uh, then I would probably go, you know what, you know what would be a nice touch? Stuart Skinner. Okay. Then I go Stuart Skinner. If it's not Skinner. And if it's not Skinner, I'll probably go Matthias Atcom. Okay. I looked at, so this is why I made you do that. Okay.

Not one of those guys is on the list of the oh, you know What new yeah, what am I thinking of? What am I thinking of? Yeah, Ryan Nugent Hopkins Corey Perry and if not him then R&H and then after Nugent Hopkins. Yeah, that's that's the right call. That's the right call Yeah, that's the right. Okay So that's that I mean I am Zach's gonna come out in a suit and a sling Zach Hyman? Zach's gonna come out in a suit and a sling? What the heck? I laughed at this until I was like, okay, I get the point, but like, logistically I don't know. But that's why I made you do that. I understand why you just named everybody you did. I just said it's interesting.

Corey Perry not there, eh? 40 years old! Well he's there, but he's third's third on the list plus come on there Okay, so Perry that give me let's do the same thing The three so you have Jones as one I have Jones Jones it I have Brad Marchand and If not Brad Marchand, I would go man last last year was so much fun, too. I would go with Probably Aaron E Ekblad Okay

Nate Schmidt number one Seth Jones to Ekblad three Marcia and for Bob five There's more listed on Fandu if people want to check them out, but that was the way that they're listed there So Nate Schmidt obviously Not with the group. I guess this is just because of games played and not having one and then Seth Jones there Seth Jones is my pick for Florida. I think it would be Seth Jones, but that's how they have it listed on a fan duel right now I just thought it was interesting that they had that listed and was up there and I thought we should Do something with like actual fan duel stuff after we talked about the sanctumies yesterday.

Seven oncologists, how many? Three out of four oncologists think that Seth Jones will get the Stanley Cup. Yeah, I was like, let's do something like real. I was actually talking about hockey on the goofy show here. All right, so tomorrow when we rejoin everybody here we're gonna be talking actually about a game on the horizon so Greg Wachanski is gonna be aboard tomorrow from ESPN. Thursday we're gonna be in Buffalo for the

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