The Steve Dangle Podcast - 40 MILLION DOLLARS | June 26, 2023

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

On this episode of The Steve Dangle Podcast, Steve brought Carlton the Bear to the Blue Room (00:00), You Can Bet That with Sports Interaction (21:00), the Colorado Avalanche get Ryan Johansen from the Nashville Predators (27:00), the Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues don't complete a trade (49:00), Tony DeAngelo isn't traded back to the Carolina Hurricanes (55:00), is PLD going to be a Los Angeles King? (1:16:00), re-drafting the top 5 from the 2020 Draft (1:20:00), Jack Eichel's tattoo and McMarried (1:29:00), are the Coyotes trying to be good? (1:34:30), and Kyle Dubas LOOVEESSS Pittsburgh (1:44:00). Visit https://sdpn.ca/pride for more! Recorded: June 26, 2023 Visit https://sdpn.ca for merch and more. Any opinion expressed is not advice, a promise or suggestion that increases the chance of winning. Gambling can be addictive, please play responsibly. To learn more, visit: https://help.sportsinteraction.com/hc/en-us/articles/216779528-Responsible-Gaming-Self-Limitation-Self-Exclusion Or if you have concerns about a gambling problem, call ConnexOntario 1-866-531-2600. Ontario Only. Must be 19+ or older to play. Visit this episode's sponsors: USE CODE SDPNLOVE AT KOFFEEKULT.COM https://sportsinteraction.com/sdpn Follow us on Twitter:@Steve_Dangle, @AdamWylde, & @JesseBlake Follow us on Instagram:@SteveDangle, @AdamWylde, & @Jesse.Blake Reach out to https://www.sdpn.ca/sales to connect with our sales team and discuss the opportunity to integrate your brand within our content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Everybody wants to know, what is Carlton the Bear really like? carlton the bear rules really hard yeah and it was great having carlton the bear at my son leo's third birthday party that's right i just sent jesse the text if he needs the picture to flash on screen but we actually got a family picture together all of us um uh wives and girlfriend be damned oh it's just us and the kids it's just the kids literally who cares and you know i loved i love having to pretend that you got carlton the bear for leo like let's be honest he loves carl oh yeah and why do you think he loves carlton but who potentially influenced that do you think my wife oh was it it was your wife definitely well i guess carlton's the most steady thing about the leaves

definitely he's always there always there 60 carlton baby um he uh uh i got leo a carlton the bear um toy when leo was negative 10 years old i still worked at leaf cv and and i bought it and he got that stuffy and it was one of his favorites then you helped me get that little carlton that's right that he calls little cutter yeah that was for him to sleep with right anything bigger than that he was pretty tiny at the time it would have been dangerous oh at the time yeah but now he sleeps with like 40 stuffies right care what's up with that by the way he likes his stuffies yeah everly does the same thing they like their stuffies yeah so this whole time i was like leo i don't understand your obsession with this carlton nonsense ah that's what you but if

you must i guess i'll embrace it so i got the carlton shirt right here that i used to get him to pay attention at sport ball when he's not and uh i thought you know what one of his pal c-dog carlton the bear came to his third birthday and honestly like this wasn't connections or nothing emailed shot in the dark hey is this a thing you do and they respond yeah yeah and it's actually pretty well relatively we don't have to get out of the price here if you want i don't want to but it's pretty well no no don't fill up all of his weekends during the summer you should fill up his weekends because he's you know it's it's a budget friendly amount it was at least half of what i expected right he's gonna get so many well what's wrong with that i i think that's a good

thing this is a good little side hustle for carl he only charged 30 dollars it was a little bit more than that he was amazing and and uh we got carlton in the blue room so Carlton has officially been in the blue room. Yeah. So I thought about that. The first. Oh, my God. There he is.

The first ever active member of the Toronto Maple Leafs organization to step foot. Hey. Hey. Carlton the Bear. All right. All right. That's very funny. Who wants to come to Steve's basement?

Carlton the Bear. I. So funniest part of Carlton the Bear being in the blue room is Steve has a picture in the blue room of steve and gritty and carlton looked at the picture of gritty and just shook his big mascot paws hands on his hip and he did a fake tear and i was like oh cutter i'm sorry the mascot wars are real how dare you oh there's competition so now you have to replace or leave up the picture of gritty but also put next to it the picture of you leo and carlton the bear in the blue room and i have to get a expensive carlton figure have to have to even

though you have why not spend more money even though you have the bear and the midi bear maddie was this one on the screen yet yeah that's the which one is which uh carlton is the one on the left i'm the one on the right leo shut up the bigger one is the one you had oh pretty leo the big one yeah so i bought that when i worked at leafs tv uh 2010 11 maybe um and uh carlton's holding little carlton which is the one adam got you yeah leo also has a carlton uh puppet no he has lots of carlton stuff you're definitely happier than leo in this photo i was thrilled i i think we need to go back to jesse though who is definitely the most thrilled yeah there's that there's one on my instagram where jesse's literally hugging garlton like he's so happy

and like with every body what's with everly's face in that everly's adorable she was just like she's posing yeah i'm gonna fold my arms i'm gonna fold my arms because dad made me get out of the pool she looks like she's about to like spin around on some cardboard on the floor does oh that's true actually uh seeing a mascot is like the funnest thing in the world i don't care no matter how old i get i'm always gonna have a good time with a mascot you love a mascot in fact i remember what's what's the one from um uh the marley's marley's got a mascot the dog dude yeah so i remember we fucking the first marley's game we do like a dangle night at i'm sitting beside jesse and and you know it's like i don't know friday night saturday a bunch of kids there

it was like sunday morning we went to a sunday at noon yeah so it's like a bunch of kids and jesse's like i just think just as jesse in his quiet ears to remember that you know jesse took a while to come out of just the jesse shell and now he is this is out of his shell jesse yeah what happened this is pre-shell jesse and he was freaking um all he's quiet quiet quiet all sudden i hear duke but you know what jesse's like high pitch scream when he screams on this show it was like that and i thought my eardrums were going to explode and i didn't know he had he's like dab for me duke dab give me a dab and then duke did it and then and then he was like yeah but then everybody got excited because i made duke dab it was awesome that's you brought

joy to everyone yeah you did that was all you dabbed for us it was awesome it was great it was great so you know that's fun i ask us they rule when we go to the draft um we'll run into gritty uh run into gritty like they usually bring the don't they bring the good mascots to nhl events they're usually all there like carlton would normally no that's the all-star i think the all-star game yeah yeah yeah that's when they were all they were all together i think carlton was there gritty was there the shark was there what's his name sharky no no it's gonna be like finn oh you know what it is finn is it it's finn you're right it probably is that's funny um you know they i like when they get them all together because they get them to do some fun

stuff now but you know that you can't have too much fun no it's sharky sharky it's even worse are you joking i i was making it up it's sharky i shot in the dark guess the name of the yo that's bad when uh when we were growing up uh the blue jays mascot was named bj birdie bj and then they're like you know what ace ace is a lot more kid friendly yeah also a birdie uh sj sharky is his full name sj sharky obviously he's the one who got stuck in the roof do you remember he was repelling oh yeah video that's always on sports in our top 10 it's the it's right after merrick malik and sharky uh dropping down from the ceiling and getting stuck there And which is the one that tried to jump through the hoop of fire

and couldn't do it? Was that the Denver Nuggets mascot, right? No, I think it happened in the NHL. Oh, it was the NHL one. Yeah. Well, maybe it was, I don't know, both. Yeah, maybe. I don't know.

I don't know. No, Carlton was great. And then Leo at one point was just like, I'm working and gets on my computer and starts like clicking on it. And Carlton's like humoring him and going, oh, what are you working on there? You know, couldn't talk. Of course.

Obviously, bears don't talk. Yeah. no no especially that very good at communicating can you imagine if there was a mascot that did talk hello support the team you'd be like i don't want to support the team anymore i just think it would be funny like because mascots are not supposed to be able to talk ever wouldn't it be cool if somebody broke that and was like now now we have a talking reason they don't talk it's scary yeah if this giant thing also talks that that's terrifying for little children fucking grimace from mcdonald's walking around hello do you have do you like those fries

that's terrifying yeah no that's that's horrifying also the uh the nuggets mascot also passed out being repelled from the ceiling no way what i was thinking of oh yeah really famous video of him what's the nuggets mascot uh he is rocky oh that's good with the mountain thing yeah yeah rocky he's like a like a cat yeah a cat that's the one that makes 600 grand yeah that looks way worse yeah that looks way worse did he pass out yeah he's being lower from the ceiling and he passed out because the rope got him well i don't understand what are you talking about man that looks like an 18th century execution man like it looks like like the undertaker versus big boss man and helen the scout what are you not understanding about

the word passed out it looks like he was look at him is he alive yeah this is alarming information no this was in 1992 he survived yeah i guess the guy did or the person i don't know if it's a woman or a man what do you think it's a cat oh yeah sorry it's a big cat cat but they passed out the real just think i'll read the thing off google um the spotlight was quickly turned off word from the nuggets was that rocky had the wind knocked out of him and would be out for the remainder of the game denver and nine news.com also reported that rocky passed out during pregame ceremony the mascot was motionless as he lowered down from the ceiling imagine i mean that picture is is like one more time on that google picture also i said in 92

what am i talking about 2013 2013 like like okay look scroll up a little bit scroll up a little bit so there's a decent enough chance someone like like that looks that looks like he was caught for piracy like like it's just it's a very very weird picture that's horrifying it is video no no i don't no i don't lowering a person who's fast he's like the mascot is wow and they are being lowered we can watch it i don't know how are we having such a wholesome conversation and you're just like hey rocky got because sharky this happened to sharky right why is it i guess and then it also happened to rocky i don't remember sharky passing out and having his lifeless body yeah just no now we're looking up the sharky one hold on hold on hold

on if you know that that that rocky's passed out do you a lower him to the ice where he falls in a crumpled heap or b pull him back up again this to the top of the arena and try to you know you know those things that they walk along in the arena right those big those like which the cat walk the catwalk which is terrifying so you'd have to grab him pull him over and then drag his ass down the catwalk no you'd have to lower him down that's far and away the safer option yeah yeah so he's just on the ice like fast all right guys yeah it would have to be passing out part two it happened to sharky in 1999 oh my god what happened to shark i've seen this picture but i always thought he was kidding this really happens that's what you'd have to tell leo

he's kidding he's sleeping silly isn't he being silly look at how silly he's still god he's been silly for a while is someone gonna fucking hey don't worry about this everything's fine you want some pizza let's go get a pizza yeah that is uh wow wow all right there's something really here we go about that there's sharky what happened sharky uh got a little tangled in the air oh that sucks yeah not great not great bob we don't need to do this anymore like we don't i think we gotta put on a show god damn it society has evolved needing to repel down from the ceiling yeah mascots just stay on the ground we don't we don't need this anymore we know it doesn't work

jeez oh man that's funny this is i was going to talk about how i was happy with leo's reaction to him and you're like hey remember the couple of them passed out unconscious yeah in front of thousands remember that yeah yeah no leo so okay he loves fire trucks right and so a fire truck visited his daycare and so we thought he would be very happy and he was not he was like old footage of a 14 year old girl seeing the beatles for the first time just openly weeping like oh just completely overwhelmed not sure what to do with this because he was so happy he was so happy oh so that's what we thought would happen with carlton but instead he just giggles the most cherubi giggles yeah and then starts high-fiving dapping them up and hugging them and oh and then

he told carlton that he didn't have time for him because he had to work he didn't say i don't have time for you he said i have to work and he sat at your your macbook and started writing and just started hitting the keyboard so he hasn't doing anything adam's little cherub angel everly walks up hello um it was very nice to meet you and i will see you tomorrow is that what she said like just very matter of fact that's good i've listened we're trying to train her to have some good manners and be respectful why do you sound like peppa pig that's because that's what she does she does have that she she adopted a bit of the british accent whatever perry or they they're they're talking about how peppa pig has like affected their kids speech so like for instance

everly does not know what a tomato is she only knows what a tomato is oh tomato leo has scottish words yeah yeah gronda okay yeah supposed to be grand uh by the way you're supposed to be grand dad your mother-in-law gave me the biggest backhand uh uh at the party yeah like actual backhand smack across the face oh yeah i deserved it but she uh the aberdeen hand i i sell and i's mom uh mrs dangle and his mom go way back uh when i hosted their wedding she called me a bonnie loon which in scottish i believe means good looking guy yes which i appreciate it anyway so her her dad and her mom come up to me and they're they're off on on vacation to celebrate their anniversary and uh she says you know we've been married in her scottish accent we've been married 40 years

and her husband looks over at her and just rolls his eyes and so i start laughing she says what you laughing about and then oh no big old smack yeah so it was a fun part just some haggis yeah you've had it haven't you i love haggis uh they they actually they're not big whiskey drinkers and they're not haggis people i'm the one who likes whiskey and i'm the one who likes haggis wow haggis is delicious is it like salty or like what is it kind of uh spiced like it's uh it's very peppery oh yeah yeah yeah i can handle that oh it's great it's how how do you eat it like with your mouth is it like sandwich type or is it like a bowl is it soupy is it a meat lasagna yeah how how is it how is it eaten well yeah you

know how it's cooked and like you know inside of a sheep's stomach how do you plate it that's yeah that's what i'm asking that's the part that makes it sound all nasty but like in my experience that's not how it's served it just it's i don't know it's basically like a sausage but like i've never had it with like a casing or whatever okay and there was oh so i was terrified it's the innards of a sausage kind of yeah so if you didn't have the sausage case it's kind of on just on your plate yeah i like ground beef really spiced meat and um that's cool i was so we were we were driving on the west coast of scotland and i was absolutely terrified because we were in a car that was too big on roads that were too small and my wife was driving which is terrifying you know just in

general and she once wrecked your car uh with no other cars on the road meaning she was pulling out of your driveway and she wrecked your car i've had the front bumper of my car torn off twice and i wasn't in the car for either event that's great to be fair to her she was only responsible for one but uh no so i was terrified and she saw a sign for the glenfiddich distillery and she's like you know what let's go there i was like oh that's gonna like take us off course though she's like no let's go there and i'm like oh she wants me to get drunk so i shut up so i got i you know followed orders and i got drunk but while i was there i also had a haggis baked potato oh wow wow wow okay if you're ever at the glenfiddich distillery the haggis baked potato all right

good stuff i gotta get is it better or worse than the wendy's baked potato because the wendy's baked potato is pretty good elite baked potato they're both you know what okay the glenfiddich one because i was drunk and generally speaking they don't like when you're smashed off whiskey in wendy's i don't know oh that's debatable i think i think they'll look at you a little i don't feel like that's out of the norm i mean half the orders come after drink o'clock you know what else makes a good baked potato there's very few places do anymore and i don't know why they're so good cake cake does a good baked potato oh that high-end restaurant yeah good baked potato right yeah no shocker i like shocker this fancy place makes good baked potato

wendy's glenfiddich distillery keg well i thought glenfiddich distillery would be in like the same sort of thing as the keg because glenfiddich is not cheap well they don't like like they don't really serve a lot of food because they want you to have your drinks and get out but they also don't want you to have don't get an empty stomach and yeah so so should we do a sort of like chips and so should we do an stp in scotland fuck yeah yeah absolutely okay i'm one of those people that like it's weird my tiktok algorithm is super sensitive so if i see one video it's like you're gonna see 80 videos like this so i saw one about scotland uh and it was about edinburgh in the rain and better and no we gotta go there and it looked gorgeous in the rain and i was like wow that

doesn't toronto does not look like that in the rain we should shoot a video um and we should bring the heaviest cameras we can find for um and climb arthur's seat oh definitely heavy cameras arthur's seat is a really really really really big mountain that that you can climb and here's how small the world is so there's like you know a path to get up arthur's seat to the seat yeah path to get down and one one day because i've been up it twice one day i was going up and someone else was coming down and i'm like oh they have a blue jays hat oh that's thomas drance no wow the canucks writer small world i'm like tom he's like steve that's cool that's very small world extremely small world um listen we got a lot to talk about a lot happened this weekend i think

we spent 20 minutes on on carlton the bear no let's talk about more mascot yeah so let's get the fire one up what's that what are you talking about what is wrong with you um there's a lot of trade there's a lot of trade speculation and jack eichel got a tattoo and we'll get to all of that but first let's talk to dave about the draft lottery which is coming up in a couple of days and we will be live streaming uh where we stand right now with sports interaction and their odds you mean the draft not the draft not the lottery okay just the draft okay the lottery is is being friends with you wow and i won you can bet that with david bastel brought to you by sports interaction get in the action and make a play 19 plus please play responsibly all right so

dave the reason we love to have this segment with you many reasons but my favorite is when it starts with steve has an idea i have an idea now we know that there's a lot of draft uh draft capital uh at sports interaction.com slash stpn um but steve steve what is your what you're thinking with draft betting here it's a great strategy so it's a it's a series of sprinkles it's sprinkles to the point where it's not even two dollars steve it's one dollar steve oh but i made a bunch of bets a big old bunch of bets okay what is the draft it's a crap shoot what do you know sure okay total i was gonna i was gonna tell you what it was but okay i'm glad you said that okay the picking of children the children auction yeah draft eligible

players that make your franchise better the kid option so yeah all of the over under where is this player gonna get picked i went through the entire list and picked there's a lot of them steve there's a lot of them there is a lot of them so i picked every player available at plus money just because oh just because it's such a crap shoot i figure i'm gonna be right on some of them you figure what do you think dave what do you think is steve's cool idea oh i can't hear him oh oh you froze dave no oh yeah i i got frozen on your side too okay we got you back all good we're good now okay so what do you think is steve's cool idea dave uh not a bad idea actually i i mean all you have to do is finish over 500 right i mean there's

i think there's 15 draft positions so it's almost like player and draft position so go over under you're picking plus money so you're profitable if you go nine and six oh all right all right we'll see okay i want to know that's yeah i have to follow up with this on friday yes 100 absolutely i'm gonna be following a lot nine and nine and six is a little tough you're a little for coin flips it's not like i'm saying 12 and three right yeah but like you flip a coin can you go nine and six on heads and tails yes you can get a coin all right now all the picks especially that these are the fun ones the second and the third round pick or third overall picks are available right now at sports interaction.com

slash sdpn who is the odds on favorite dave for pick number three that's the number three fascinating one for me yeah it really is because we've had some uh different uh rumor mill uh gossip about will smith sneaking into the conversation his odds have kind of went back and forth but right now the favorite sports interaction is leo carlson to go number three overall and i guess the big wild card and i'm sure you guys have talked about this is this russian kid uh matvey mitchkoff yes um who apparently has the skill of a conor bedard yeah uh but nonetheless uh you you just never know sometimes what you're going to get with these type of players that aren't heavily um watched uh on a on a day-to-day hour by hour

basis uh he is playing in russian pro league which is not a bad secondary league to the nhl so uh will he come over at this time that's another question that people are asking because he fluctuates anywhere between two and seven and if you're picking at that number seven spot i'm i know i know it's one of those guys i think the haves are going to take him i think they're taking him at five that's my bet i can bet that and i will you can bet you i can't i can't specifically uh dave thank you so much and we are going to follow up with especially with Steve's record on. I want to know how this worked out.

Yeah, we'll do that on Friday. We're going to be in Nashville in the meantime. I'm sorry we can't take you with us. Yeah, safe travels, guys. I know Nashville. It'll be really tough to have fun there.

But I know you guys are going to try your best. Thanks. OK, try your best. It's not Winnipeg, but it's it's it's going to do. Definitely not the peg. I'll have a ginger ale in your honor.

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nazim khadri left it's been i mean they had some injuries this year they had uh and a really unfortunate incident in in the first round of the tushkin like there was like a bunch of things that that kind of did not go the abs way this year and they were still in the playoffs and still good um he is a bet ryan johansson and we'll get to the nashville side of this in a second um he also allows them the cap space to go and re-sign jt confer too so then they'd have you know a solid top three if they were able to get johansson and retain confer that'd be awesome i think they might be able to do it um i'm not as confident you know they said as confer they're saying the number has to be a little friendlier on the f side but now it's definitely

doable okay okay all right now um nashville when they had that really good year a couple years ago uh 21 22 uh and then they got destroyed by the avalanche in the playoffs um ryan johansson had 63 points in 79 games this year a bit more of a regression 55 games some injuries but only 28 points and the big drop was 26 goals to 12 and so you got to think with the abs with the strong wingers that they have that that number can go back up again he's not like career uh like he's not historically a big goal scorer no it's more of a playmaker so this is going to be news uh great news for any of the abs forwards who are heading into a contract year uh probably you know he'll get you the puck um but it was to me it was a it was a thought exercise in um adjusting your

expectations so you know here's a player who's often injured here's a player who makes eight million dollars and i just unfortunately because of the way his career has gone he doesn't make sense in any scenario at eight million dollars for anybody he just doesn't four i'll take ryan johansson for four yep is he available for four well apparently he's available that's half a million more than alex kerfoot oh you know what that's not a bad way of putting it man i think we need to i think we need to put it in those terms yeah no the cap is flat this year the money is equal i i perfectly understand this trade from the avalanche standpoint i'm not as convinced for nashville but again i have to remind myself he doesn't make sense to anybody at eight million

dollars well let's talk about the national end of it just to finish off on the abs it makes so much sense to just acquire this player because in free agency this type of player isn't available not really we'll talk about how how weak the class is this year and for four million dollars you can't go buy a second uh second line center you know like who's the top five center confer right and that's the guy who's who had the best year of his career and might test free agency and if he does he's probably going to get a number that the apps can't match so you have to come back on a team friendlier deal if he doesn't want to go get that contract but for this it just makes so much sense because it's a free asset you're you're not going to bring back elchenyak or if

you were it's not even an expensive thing to do so you move that you get him at half cost and it's a perfect deal on the aft side and you know there's nothing wrong with having a divisional rival retaining four million dollars on a player for the next two years because i mean it probably keeps the preds down a little bit all right well there's one less team we have to worry too much about right we know we know what they think their window is and it'll come but it's not yet so we're gonna try to win at least one more cup i think this next couple years this for the for the preds it plays into a bigger story because where's the draft this year nashville right and i've got some stuff i've got a i've got a quote from the tennessean uh with barry trotz that i think

you're gonna find interesting but barry trotz doesn't officially take over as gm until july first by the way uh which is a fucking lie it's a farce barry trotz so far the press release oh i know i know i know he has some more quotes too just yeah it's hilarious it's awful um uh barry trotz since since coming in fired john hines hired andrew brunette no no he didn't fire john hines he made john hines sit at home until he decided to pick a new head coach oh yeah and then that day he let his lame duck head coach uh know that he no longer has a job right yeah that's tough i see uh he said that he wants his scouts to take big swings at the draft and he traded ryan johansson at 50 retained for alex galchenyuk also and i think it's important that we look at this

um the picks that he has brought in have been pretty significant and i'm i'm pushing in that direction because i want to drop after we kind of talk about the moves that have been made since uh the spring i want to talk about what he wants to do with the draft because i think nashville uh in st louis are the two most fascinating teams in the western conference and i'm not just talking about st louis because of uh the trade that almost happened this weekend i'm talking about the fact that uh st louis has been on a very low grade heater that no one's paying attention to and you should be paying attention so let's talk about uh february 2023 it starts with nino niederreiter going to the winnipeg jets who want to remain competitive

of even now nashville acquires their 2024 second round pick okay the predators then trade uh the next day tanner you know at 800 oh my god at 800 000 i forgot about this for cal foot who was still a pretty good defensive prospect sure uh 2023 third rounder from tampa 2023 fourth rounder a 2023 fifth rounder a 2024 second round pick and a 2025 first round pick which is conditional uh and that is top 10 protected so assuming tampa is still good uh then they're gonna get it um if not i believe it pushes to the next year uh then they you know a couple minor moves and then uh february 28th which is two days after the big tander janeau move they move matias at home uh with four percent retained to the nashville predators they get tyson berry reed schaefer

a 2023 first round pick a 2024 fourth round pick uh and they shed uh a million and a half dollars in that one um they also um were able to get rid of uh grandlin's deal michael grandlin uh five million bucks clean all they got what's that to the penguins to the penguins that one was tough second round pick oh so this is what he's done like look at the amount of work that that this this non-general manager has put in uh it's crazy and and here's the thing just ryan johansson and michael grandlin alone that's nine million dollars they have 19 and a half to spend this summer in free agency and i don't think they're going to spend it free agency i think they're going to use it to to supercharge this retool that they're on they got the draft capital

to do it so they're going to draft and here's the other thing and this is i love barry trotz for this this is the kind of leadership you want he said uh publicly that they're going to try to get into the top five he said we have a lot of picks and i'm trying like hell to get into the say top four or five picks this draft he said you need a dance partner um uh so you have to have a team that's willing to do that and i don't know which of the top five teams would be willing to do that the ducks the jackets the sharks the canadians because you know chicago's not going to do it so here's the thing montreal might make sense i i don't think if that deal happens it's not happening till right before like the pick right there at the pick and i say that because i'm

hearing whispers and i'm not confident saying the whispers but i think some shit is gonna go down in the top five yeah oh yeah uh there are gonna be some dynamite players available really at spots you couldn't fathom yeah really yeah now for that reason i don't think the preds are going to be able to get in there unless someone loses their mind like if the preds can convince someone to do this deal before the draft they're geniuses i just i don't think any gm out there is stupid enough to do that the predators have 13 picks this draft 10 of those 13 10 of those 13 are in the first four rounds how many uh picks they have 2014 uh jesse you have cat friendly it's uh they got one first round pick in three seconds yeah so far those three seconds uh 2024 pitch those out

the door gives us yeah so the like barry trotz he's been very vocal in the media uh lately he he had some quotes in there as well about um the players he wants to keep because i i guess they were getting some calls on uc soros and he publicly said that we're not moving soros top five goalie what are you doing right why would you ever move that deal and he's on a fantastic deal as well he said he's not trading yosi he needs that's the those are the type of pieces that you need to build around to to get into the to the future here but he's not afraid to move out the bodies so that young guys have places within the lineup so you're moving out johansson to so you have places within your organization to bring in young guys and young talent and it's it's a it's

going to be a quick rebuild in nashville to keep going this way because they're going to have so many picks and there's going to be that extra cap space that they have now it's it's important like it's it's not just that that four million dollars it's it's just the flexibility in a in a hard cap that hasn't moved at all getting that extra four million dollars plus you're not going to really miss um ryan ohansson's um talent on the ice because you're not trying to win necessarily and he was overvalued anyways and it's going to be a quick rebuild especially with all of these picks remember the end of the season when the preds had like phil tomasino the team trainer one of the hot dog guys like as the top line the mascot yeah the mascot but they fought

like hell who couldn't breathe yeah saber tooth no he could breathe you know that tyson barry's getting pitched at the deadline too if he doesn't get at this draft he did really well for them too like i i want to say but like you you if you're he's not in your window and that's not a it's not a slide against tyson berry but i do believe that tyson berry will be traded i just think at the end of the season berry was part of it but it was a big youth movement especially up front that probably gave them the confidence to all right we can rebuild but it's not like we're not going to be bad it's having your cake and eating it too we can trade every tradable asset keep all the young guys and still be relatively competitive one name i'm

wondering about now if this is the if this is the move that they're going to make right they've got ekholm grandlin and now johansson out the door right those are three pretty big names on that nashville roster the name that i think that that you know you should really pay attention to uh well actually there's two but the one i'm really paying attention to is matt duchene and another eight million dollar centerman 32 years old three years left why didn't colorado get him uh i heard he grew up a fan yeah new older sticks yeah um i think listen he wants to be in nashville that's why he signed there long term he loves playing there and he was very good last year you know 56 points 22 goals in 77 something games or whatever pretty low-key

low-key good but that does not fit your window anymore does it and you kind of look at that he's got a modified no trade um so it's only a 17 no trade list that gives them a lot of flexibility it's basically canada he doesn't want to come to canada do you remember his 2022 season when he put up 40 and 40 oh 43 goals and 43 assists or whatever it was and it's funny because everyone was like la la la i can't hear you he's bad now yeah like no i refuse to believe he's a 40 goal scorer he's bad now like nope 40 and 90 or whatever yeah it was ridiculous yeah he was but he's a good player man yeah he didn't repeat it last year but it doesn't mean he's not a valuable asset no one really did no what i mean well i think there's a i i wonder about him and i wonder about i think

roman yosi is a is a pred but i think ryan mcdonough is interesting because he's a 6.75 million dollar player he's a great leader tampa dearly misses him um they do they really do maybe they got him back well i was gonna i wonder i was wondering about that you know it's a that's an expensive contract so you're you're going to have to retain but what can you steal from julian brisbois and frankly um what's julian brisbois going to steal from you because if you do business with him he is winning i don't know i don't know about you know yeah i feel that way no tanner you know yeah that's true and actually uh so separate from that conversation you know who kind of fits the preds pretty well and they can afford to be a little frivolous and free

agency because they have the cap space and they got a shitload of picks michael bunting oh he'd be good pred the exact player who was going toe-to-toe for the calder or like a calder nomination with tanner janeau a couple years ago i don't know why not have your cake and eat it too there's my second cake reference i'm hungry um go out and get him add some of the snarl back to the lineup he's not old he's only like 43 yeah you know so apparently uh i i like these these new extremely aggressive team st louis is aggressive nashville's aggressive you know who else is aggressive it's a team that made a trade this and i will get to them later not not that no um los angeles apparently there were discussions about uc soros going to la he's got

a five million dollar deal basically the cal peterson deal they gave cal peterson in uc soros the same amount of money yeah there's the rumors and then he denied it he denied it let me throw it out there so there have been different versions of the pierre luke dubois trade out there uh and we will get to that by the way yeah we've seen we've seen i follow his name we've seen um velardi's name i've heard kaliev's name uh but they need a goalie shut up and kiss hella buck do a blockbuster man give me a proper blockbuster with dubois and hellebuck maybe you can only afford one and that i understand but wouldn't it be perfect it'd be great you need a goalie anyway one stop shop give us a proper blockbuster pierre luke dubois and connor hellebuck to la in the same

deal it worries me that the nhl is too boring for something like that oh well i have shedding that a bit i have no i have some evidence to back that up but we'll get to that later on the show Last thing with the Preds, they've already retained two salaries. We've gone through all their trades. They retained on Matias Echo and they retained on Joe Hanson. So this McDonough deal and all the other... Matt Duchesne. You can't retain.

They can't retain again unless they want to use up that last slot. So we'll see if Trotz can get really creative with those contracts. So what's a second line center cost these days anyway? What would you ballpark it at? Like a UFA? I guess, yeah. If you were assigning somebody to be a second line center. Look at Nazem Kadri's contract.

so six or seven million that all seven so is matt duchene an elite second line center on a very good team that needs one i'd say so at eight million dollars that's what i mean right is that you know maybe you don't have the same money up the wing so you you have it in the center position right how many years do you have uh three i think hey i was gonna play on one year no brainer yeah three yeah it's a it's a little rich for because you got to consider like what team has eight million in cap space to spend who needs a second non-center.

Yeah. Like, is it a team like Columbus who's trying to rebuild and they're like, okay, we can bring in Duchesne, but then... Oh, I'm sure he'd love it there.

This is why people criticize the Ekholm deal because the Preds did pretty well, but retaining 4%... $250,000. ...is such a waste of a contract retention slot,

but the Oilers needed that or they couldn't get the deal done. So that's a... So maybe you use that last slot on duchesne and then you stick around you try to make the mcdonough deal or you keep mcdonough you know at a salary it'd be easier to because mcdonough's got what one year uh no he has a couple no uh three oh man yeah and he has a no trade clause well so another way of retaining

is you know take money back or you send picks with it yeah but the thing about the lightning is they're they're not looking around their roster going oh man we've spent our money so poorly yeah we need to get rid of this guy yeah like there's not a i was i was talking to someone about this there's not a ton of really bad contracts out there like i'm talking albatrosses like unmovable hunks of shit there's some bad ones yeah there's a bunch of bad ones but like i'm talking the 2016 class of bad like brower that thing's not going anywhere lad erickson you know there's some and like oliver eckman larson had a terrible one you could argue johansson's was becoming terrible now he's a four million dollar player okay that makes a lot of

sense i think now there are more ways creative ways to get out of deals we have you can send well because they're willing to be creative the ways always existed yeah now they're willing to do all these different things you can buy out the contract you can you can retain on the salary you can just package it for somebody else's ltir money you know so somebody might want a body instead of just that free thing and not pay the insurance and there's more creative ways than in 2016 when gms were kind of just copy and paste nhl uh video game trades like one for ones i'm trying to think of a bad contract that someone out there is trying to move like josh anderson it's not a great contract but like he's still a sought after player yeah people want that guy yeah right so

there's no untouchable like don't even approach me with that nonsense yeah there's not much of that anymore uh the league's also deeper like this is why 34 teams will work in the nhl because there's so many good players you get on the roster and you look at some third and fourth lines you're like those guys are talented yeah oh yeah nhl legit nhl players they gotta play lower in the lineup because the league is just so deep all that stuff about uh oh it's gonna water down the league no look how good seattle is instantly in second in their second season because all these guys who are retreads who are just thrown off these teams and they're talented nhlers and some of the players like uh they showed the calder cup final i'm like oh man i recognize almost half

these guys on both rosters eichelrath yeah we will call him eichelrath i could know when he lays a big hit we will call him eichelrath there you go um i'm also wondering about some of the you know like the the the uc sorrows thing is interesting for nashville because there are teams looking for it and i do think that would count as a blockbuster oh my god huge yeah because askarov is winning in the wings and if you can get value for soros now um and then i mean listen i okay i understand having to hang on to matt duchesne you've also got thomasino sitting there played in the nhl season then went back played really well with the admirals and now he's back now he could be back next year so you have

center protection for him but i don't think that given the um the nashville uh the way that they've structured their goaltending i don't think they would necessarily need sorrows in front of you could have kevin lincoln and for two million bucks you can have you know it's gonna be a bad i believe barry trotz when he says sorrows isn't on the table yeah you gotta be at five million dollars like top three goal in the nhl for the next two years i guess i could probably play nhl games but you i don't think you want him to really no i think you take your time and do it properly okay all right uh philip forsberg is he ever gonna play hockey again i hope so i do too he's on injured reserve right now that's another name that could be very interesting

i'm just wondering like listen i don't know what's out there but i'm just wondering like listen if they're if they are in a real retool mode forsberg's like the youngest of all the players that they sort of have at the higher end but yeah he's 28 i just don't think the Preds have aspirations of being bad. Like, they don't have aspirations of bottoming out. You know what I mean? They're not going to do what Columbus and Chicago and Anaheim, all of them, did last season.

No, that's one of the top 10 goal scorers in the game, game by game. Has to be. Yeah. No, you don't get rid of it. Where are you guys going to be in 2030? When his deal's up? When Philip Forsberg's eight-year deal is over, 2030. i'm gonna be in this chair but it's gonna be gold

it'll be gold bladed yeah how old will leo be in 2030 uh 10 oh you have a 10 year old you you're gonna adam's gonna have an 11 year old yeah whoa she'll just be getting into the i hate you yeah i can't wait for that she's gonna hate you from like 11 till like 25 yeah well we'll be we'll just be starting the dad what was covid like you know oh god don't ask me about that you never asked me about that um some of the biggest news of the weekend did not actually happen or at least as of this recording has not happened yet should we talk about our end of it and what the trade that never happened and us frantically trying to figure out how to make a video about it which one was it frantic what do you mean

What do you mean If this trade happens we'll make a video tomorrow I think that was That was as far as it went Did I miss something Yeah but then the trade didn't happen Yeah but I ended up having to do one for Sean Dursey And then

But that's I mean that's a very It's a minor no offense to Sean but it's a blip It's a minor trade Alan's gonna murder you It is it's a small dude Noted dead man Adam Wiles That's the biggest trade in NHL history. Oh, your phone's blowing up.

Oh, shit. No, so I was... My Walshie sense is tingling. Yeah, he can hear this. I was supposed to be heading to a bachelor party, and then the Ryan Johansson trade happened. I'm like, okay, I'll shoot something for that quick, and then I'll go.

And then the Dursley trade happened as I'm heading out the door, and I'm like, I can't frigging do this. And then you're just hearing more and more rumblings, like, oh, this St. Louis-Philly trade's going to be huge. and i'm like i can't do it damn it i'm in the car i was panting adam i think i was i was frantic i think that's what happened yeah i wasn't afraid of steve had a moment i'm like we'll figure it out we'll do it well and this is the thing like i that the reason i left my job is to do more

content so i'm gonna do more content what will i what i was thinking what about steve so now that you know that the purported drama that happened on our end uh let's tell you about the drama that didn't happen with st louis and philly they were working on a blockbuster we're not exactly sure how it looked but it's something like this to uh to st louis it was going to be kevin hayes and probably travis sandheim fresh off an eight-year 50 million dollar extension which he signed uh in october in the chuck fletcher era and promptly took a huge step back because he and torts just don't gel and that's the thing with certain players they they play really well torch shows up they don't play well they leave and either and a lot of the time they

go back to playing the way that they were they just don't work in the tort system torts likes a very specific type cam atkinson is that type uh yes um going to philly uh tory krug who i believe if i'm not mistaken just he and his wife welcomed a baby in the last three months so they have three kids and they welcomed another one yes yeah so that's a lot of the reason why you turned down the trade yeah if you have trade protection in that situation you use it uh one or two of the three first rounders the blues have this year may have been going as well so that's the 10th 25th which is the least i believe and then the 29th pick and uh you know honestly um i don't blame if that's tory krug's reasoning i don't blame him as of this morning uh lewis gross who represents

tory krug uh i think it was uh pure lebrun was wondering if there was some sort of connection there because john leclaire who just joined the flyers organization his agent was lewis gross there is probably phone calls happening right now and all day today from flyers uh players and management trying to get to recruit to change his mind because that often happens it's like you know let's give it a bit give it a minute let it sink in i think that's so wrong why do you think that's wrong you have trade protection in there it is your right to exercise it it should be no i don't want to go there end of conversation it's it's also your right to to try to sell them on it and it oftentimes what happens is they go no and then they think about

it they go well the team i just signed this with just tried to trade me maybe i don't want to be here anymore that's tough uh other players survived it they oh yeah and they show up to work and they play hockey um i don't have a problem with the flyers i don't have a problem with tory krug having concerns and the flyers trying to alleviate those concerns does that make sense like i want to make sure my wife is taken care of i want to make sure my kids are taken care of um you know where are they going to go to school i don't have a problem with the flyers trying to alleviate those concerns i do have a problem with it persisting if he puts his foot down yeah they they they've reported on krug in a very particular way that makes it sound like

no unless not no you know what i mean okay it sounds it's been worded in a way that sounds like he could be convinced but right now he doesn't want to i don't think it's fair to paint krug or anybody in this situation as a bad guy no we're not wanting to go to a team is anybody doing that i haven't seen anyone do that no i haven't seen that either the perception is is out there that like hey we got to convince him to do this and like you got to help out the organization and all that stuff and like we can convince you to do this but like it's his right to turn down the trade agreed i don't think the blues would be bummed to keep him like he's a good player i think there was i you know i i think he probably doesn't fit the window that the blues

have for themselves right because i think there is i mean he's still a very very good player i think it's more just along the lines of things have changed fairly quickly well like he's not much older than travis sanheim i don't think but like kevin hayes isn't so could it be the money thing it's just the contracts it's just how they're allotting it okay yeah and also we don't know the other parts also if i were him and i'm like a freewheeling defenseman i don't know if i want to play in torts's system well there's that and but also i don't i don't know all their names but the blues have some really good young players and i want to say they're on d um so maybe they think okay we can replace them replace krug with them trying to think of their young guys

they have some good ones i think they made a mistake not hanging on to petrangelo well i think the blues made a big i don't think petro made a mistake no i think he made a great a great decision uh you know it's fascinating to see what philly continues to do because uh They also almost had another trade that would have been notable, but not actually big this weekend, Philly and Carolina for Tony D'Angelo. So basically last year, and I'm going to rewind it for a second because this one actually has more juice to it than even that blockbuster does. Chuck Fletcher traded for Tony D'Angelo on July 8th last year. And that's sorry. Yeah. July 8th, 2022. And that's a really important date. Circle that one. uh he gave up a lot uh this year danny breer is trying to undo all the moves that chuck fletcher

made in the last couple of years dude he was just awful here is the original move for tony d'angelo who at the time was a restricted free agent there was no contract worked out making a million bucks uh to carolina 2024 2022 fourth round pick a 2023 third round pick conditional uh which is carolina will receive the best of the philly florida new york ranger third picks in the 2023 draft uh carolina will receive philly's pick it turned out to be philly's pick because they were the worst and the 2024 second round pick from philadelphia and that was all for tony d'angelo and again then they chuck fletcher signs him for two years five million a piece um so sports nets elliot friedman reported last night the audience who is that he'll be traded

back to carolina uh but um that the flyers would have to retain 50 percent of d'angelo's salary oh my god uh multiple sources say the deal hit a snag last night and by the way uh d'angelo was benched in the final five games of the season and he was pissed about it fucking sucks he was a team high negative 27 like plus minus is a bullshit stat but when you're minus 27 something's wrong um and there may have been as a part of this deal a sweetener beyond the salary retention um for who i don't know for tony d'angelo it's no like on who's end i uh i believe flyers would be sweetening it apparently that was just a rumor we don't know we don't know again a lot of rumor a lot of talk i just want you to be aware of the full picture what's the snag eric tulsky do not

give him more power oh shit the snag according to pierre lebrun uh is that the nhl stepped in uh there's language in the cba that prevents a player from returning within 12 months especially on retained salary as this is considered possible cap circumvention yeah the retained salary is the special point in that in that uh reporting because the retained salary is where you get the like ding on something might be suspicious with this trade to the nhl head offices so um what lebron said is the flyers and canes have both argued with the league about this saying one his contract wasn't even signed with carolina it was a philadelphia contract uh when they they signed him after he arrived in philadelphia number two chuck fletcher was the gm who traded for d'angelo

and signed him and he's no longer there so how could that possibly be cap circumvention uh either the league will sign off on it this week in nashville because they're going to talk to them in person uh or they'll wait till july 9th and complete the trade yeah that's actually that's a very good point yeah the argument on the flyers and kane side is sound like but they'll win that one but the nhl i don't think they want to i don't think they want to look the other way on this instance because there's specific language and you can't do this and even though there are conditions that make it seem like hey this isn't capsular convention at all and this is ridiculous that you're implying this rule it's the nhl and i think they always go by but why why no they don't

though they don't they go on a case-by-case basis this is what pisses me off about the nhl they go on a case by mike richards mike richards is captured it's honestly the worst every now and then i'll get a tweet from someone like holy shit you're right about this micro thing why is there not there should be a book on what the fuck happened with lombardi richards and the nhl he was how did this happen booted out of the league on some bullshit and then they were the kings were allowed to buy him out at a reduced rate the fuck and why was that ever allowed to stand why was kovalchuk allowed to do what he did can you refresh well the devils remember he like he signed the big deal and then he like retired and went to the khl oh and also let's not forget

that the devils were fined and then they they were fine draft picks like first round and then the draft picks were oh we'll give them back to you they gave him back because he retired so this to me anyway so that's that's examples so if you hit if you if you punch someone in the face and break their nose and you have to go to you're my dog and you yes and you got to go to jail for it if your nose heals faster do you get out of jail earlier i don't think so probably not this is my point that's a really weird comparison i'm just listen i didn't want to make it about like murder or something right i want to be like something that actually happened to you so with this one i'm like if i am at the league office and are we we purposely don't have a bar set so no one can

hold us to a standard we don't have a standard so you can't hold us to it it's a really smart move by the nhl but on this one it's tony d'angelo why are we blocking a tony d'angelo trade it's it's something that is trades are good this is a notable player this is a player that played well in carolina they don't want the other gms to be upset about about what are any of them like oh man we really wanted tony d angel there's cba language and the other gms don't want an exception to be made for the flyers and games except for all the exceptions that they make for guys like but to your point like case by case basis they're gonna raise up their arms and say hey in this case there's language that says you can't retain within a year and trade them back

even though like all the other circumstantial evidence says that this isn't capstone convention there's language you can't do it so i think the nhl might just be like wait till july 9th and see if you want still want to do the deal then it's such semantics all right literally literally it's literally no here's the thing wait two fucking weeks and the deal's gonna happen anyway just to prove it what what is what was the master plan here so okay we have d'angelo who makes a million yeah we're gonna trade them to the flyers this is all part of our master plan we're gonna trade them to the flyers he's gonna sign a contract with the flyers the flyers are gonna pay him five million dollars for him and the whole team to be absolute dog shit

then we're going to turn around and send them back to carolina after firing our GM at a reduced rate that doesn't help us. So what? It doesn't help. Why would the Flyers pay several draft picks

and $5 million for a useless year's worth of Tony D'Angelo? Dude, they thought they were going to be good with him. That was the whole thing. Chuck Fletcher did. Chuck Fletcher did.

Oh yeah, that's another thing. We're going to fire the guy who made the deal in between. like carolina didn't sign that contract so laundering what they fired the general manager who made the initial trade you know what you sold me on this why are they holding this deal up this is fucking stupid this is really nhl and they they're like we have language against this how would it be cap circumvention though it's not like but they're holding 50 back it's not it's

cap we're fucked but they have language that says that this scenario would be cap circumvented so i don't know if what gets me about the fucking quote is like they're gonna meet in nashville this week pick up the phone gary bill whoever whoever decides this it takes here's a five minute fucking phone call hey steve asked this question all the time and i have to i have to say what the fuck do you guys do all day what do you do what are you doing that that where that like that um reporting in there i thought was interesting too that they're waiting till today and tomorrow because they're all going to be in the same room yeah why don't we just talk about it they can call them over they can say briere get over here we're gonna talk to you

gary wants bill daly who sent his henchmen to go talk to you and they'll probably have it solved this week or they make him wait till the nhl cares more about this than they do about night jerseys it's fucking crazy i can't believe this sometimes man it's just so stupid just so like they could be talking about it right now and have it all solved but it's ridiculous the nhl loves fucking with new gms oh yeah and part of me wonders if this is like just to wag their finger at danny briere don't you go making too many moves don't go thinking you can do anything but like forgetting that on the other end of it is don waddell who's been there since like the sun was invented i think if this is lou and don waddell is this even a problem no absolutely not

right is the deal on saturday lou would be like gary you know those pictures i have of you yeah okay we're gonna make this still happen thank you he would just send him a picture of two concrete shoes that are just his size. Yo, can you imagine how terrifying just getting a Lou Lamorello selfie from Lou Lamorello would be? He just takes a picture of his face,

sends it through. I don't know if he knows how to do that. He gets an assistant on a secure line, of course. Yeah. It appears you have been mailed a Polaroid from one El Lamorello. I don't know if he knows how to text a selfie.

That's the Polaroid. If this is Kyle Dubas, how not is this approved? Oh, it never happened. Never happened. It would even make him wait till like next July. Oh, Kyle's coming. Whatever it is, no. That's literally how it felt.

Yeah, Penguins fans, I hope you're ready to have absolutely every fucking neat idea nixed by the league yeah because someone somewhere got upset if this is the least oh man this never gets approved absolutely not yeah it's it it's an interesting um it's it's it's an interesting thing to get snagged on and this is why when you say when we said hey the nhl is really getting some cool trades and they are uh uh but it's like how do we stand in the way of this let's let's let's not have a trade to talk about let's not generate news let's just simply know let's let's save that news especially for the media outlets that are partners and i'm gonna speak selfishly here july 9th everybody wants to hear about the d'angelo

trade on fucking july 9th i bet tsn and sportsnet will be thrilled elliot and fucking bob mckenzie wheeling out back from the cottage like okay the trade happened and it was because of the reasons that we said that it would okay bye leaving the car no no absolutely not just fuck me man uh it's just brutal but anyway um we got like three weeks for a trade for no reason yeah a bad one too it's not even a good trade for no reason for batteries it's a more reason to dunk on chuck fletcher that's about it i'd be curious uh like what the argument is like i i know you're talking about the language but is the language specific enough because we have a contract that was not signed prior to the deal if carolina signed him to a deal trade him to the flyers and less than a year

later the flyers try to retain salary and trade him back i know that that's illegal i know that you can't do that and it's reasonable that that's illegal and it's reasonable that you can't do that but if the flyers signed them then what's the problem yeah and the guy who signed that contract isn't even employed isn't even employed there yeah it makes no sense but i think they're going to be a stickler because there's language and it's stupid but if we just look at the scenario there's no reason this trade shouldn't have happened on saturday yeah there's absolutely no reason but the nhl loves their little rules and going over the cba with the finest comb and saying hey don't do that this says you can't really do that i don't know let's wait it out

sounds like the flyers are trying to get better right under our nose here let's let's devil's advocate this could you in theory convince a team okay we have a restricted free agent like they did with tony d'angelo sign him to this we're going to essentially loan him to you for a year yep then you would retain salary and send him back if the year passes the worry if the year passes then it's free reign right it's the 12 month window yeah i guess that's the word that's what it says in cba you can't do within 12 months i guess they're worried about someone being extra sneaky but yeah he played there for a year he played there a full season he could have missed out on a stanley cup he kind of come well they made it to the third round they didn't win a game

but you know they got close enough i just a serious question why does carolina want him i don't know other than he's cheap well at 2.5 he'd be cheap well that's what i mean right uh and and then the other thing is like he did play well but they had to shelter him within their system which is a great system yeah well so they're looking at potentially getting rid of brett pesci right and so that is interesting but i don't think replacing brett pesci with tony d'angelo was the move i wonder if they looked at how their playoff run ended and if they said hey Tony D'Angelo is kind of something we were missing there he wasn't good for Carolina in the playoffs or no it was Carolina tore his ass up when he was with the Rangers yeah no but then

they got him yeah but a player like Tony D would help in the series versus Florida I don't think he would I unreal offensive player yeah well okay how much help do you need then because i was told by rod brindamore that we got swept but we didn't get swept yeah so in theory if you're actually going to listen to rod the bod you should just be able to play that series over again and win it but obviously that's not what you think so like to me d'angelo and brent burns are two players who i mean brent burns has passed his best defensively but they can both put up a ton of points are you gonna have two right-handed guys from the back end on the power play and you put slavin and shea brady shea but this is your this is your calvin dahan shane goss's bear

replacement right because you're losing those two maybe the ufa and uh for sure and then you bring in at 2.5 toyan d'angelo to fill in that slot i guess in fairness i didn't really understand the goss despair acquisition from them and he worked out okay but it's just something about tony d'angelo and uh brent burns playing both playing the right side but it's carolina and they're silly geese so you never know maybe brent burns is getting traded i don't know right there was also um i think it was merrick on 32 thoughts said um max patch ready he's not coming back he's a ufa and they don't plan on resigning him so well that would cost the money and that would be a problem if you uh if you look at what the fucking what they put their captain through uh jordan stall

signed that extension this weekend it was a four-year 11.6 million so he makes like 2.9 a year oh it's official it's official okay but it was it everybody was good with it except for the owner who was not good with it he's like that's simply too much i couldn't imagine spending money and he does spend money but he the thing about tom dundon and money is you're gonna pry it from my cold dead hands like look at what brendamore had to go through to get himself and the coaching staff like a slight raise so you're just the 90s bruins like you're just so close and you will not spend on getting over that hump like you're just i mean they spend they're gonna spend on on july 1st we're gonna hear sebastian ajo signs a giant contract yep you know that's gonna happen and

svetchnikov had his last year and even though he's injured um you could argue well you could easily argue they should have done better if they were healthy but fifths and butts and all that bullshit it's hockey and that happens man it's it's weird how like they have such a successful team but they operate on this weird budget adding you're right about the spending money thing like well it's just tom dundon being a fucking rich guy right yeah like let's let's be let's be real about that like he he purposely grinds people because that's what got him where he is but you gotta if you if you're gonna be cheaper than almost everybody else you gotta be smarter than almost everybody else right but they usually are yeah and they usually are but if you're not willing

to spend on young executives who are up and coming in the league eric tulsky who's it sounds like he's gonna leave any day now is he well who's gonna not literally any day now but like he's up for every gm you mean i want him here so you mean july 1st when kyle dubas is no longer interim general manager and eric tulsky is general manager of the pittsburgh me could be because sorry that looks like something that might be in the cards in the field it could be no to steal the visual arrival like basically what i'm saying is you're gonna you know if you're not willing to spend money on the ice or in the boardroom you're gonna lose guys and that's a problem well you never know try it try it don't spend on anybody and they got close enough i'd

like to go to the third round wouldn't you yeah um jordan stall's camp according to tsn and sports net both articles uh jordan stall's camp was very flexible uh tom dundon was not but he did get a modified no trade i think in the yeah the thing so that's good he got a no movement clause no new move yeah an nmc okay and that and the nmc is don't fucking phone me by the way text me don't email me i am not leaving jordan stall uh makes uh will make next year six hundred thousand dollars less than alex kerfoot i hate you the barometer for free agency this year is alex kerfoot's contract with the leafs last year that's i want no i want that in perspective because i was told for four years that that guy had value and he didn't so

not at that value this year not at that value this year happy for him though so i earlier in the show i was talking about how there aren't any like real albatross contracts anymore with who uh around the league like just around the league there aren't as many like true bombs like just listen you would not be saying that if brofsky hadn't gone on the run but regular season brofsky's been a bomb we talked about this earlier where were you then yeah where were you well i'm scared i would i because i wasn't disagreeing with what you were saying you're saying there's no albert that's an albert now now wait though okay so we could have a free agency class similar to 2016s potentially yeah because i mean bunch of good players available yeah all those guys in

2016 who were signed were good players at least at the time but they are gonna sign bloated big old piece of shit contracts and all you've said for the last month is the cap's gonna go up the cap's gonna go up the cap's gonna go up it's true so all these players are gonna be signing for you know they're gonna be signing the cap's gonna go up deals which could make them shorter it could be there could be a lot of gavrikov out there because remember he could have gone to the open market the kings wanted him for longer and they were probably willing to pay him more for longer but uh he and his agent said no absolutely not where the cap is gonna go up like what eight or nine million in the next two years why would we sign i keep going back to bunting he has never

made over a million dollars in a year right and that's uh you know multi 20 goal scorer he had 60 points calder nomination uh whatever asterisk you want to put on it like if i'm him i'm signing for the dough i because i need it i took that contract in toronto one to be a leaf i think yeah um but two i know i'm gonna play in their top six and i'm gonna get a million points and i'm gonna be able to cash in cash in young men do it but some of those contracts are gonna stink dude i love barbachev the contract's gonna stink the numbers they're talking about with it and the term eight years well eight years to resign yeah or well seven you know potentially but whatever max term or uh orlov great player all right here is it's seven million dollars whoa okay

although you know what a lot of people said that about hampus lindholm when he signed his extension in boston he's been great you know because he he first off he played with the shitty ducks and also there were some injuries injuries but he has come back and been the hampus lindholm of old he's been really good yeah maybe you're right uh i doubt i am uh now all situations another move from another aggressive team that is still pending is pierre-luc dubois now evidently as of today they are working on an extension before the deal goes through however there has been a slight sneeze ah and the montreal canadians are still in it reno lavoie of uh tva um who is a very good insider uh and a very trustworthy one there there

are a group that you trust and there are a group where you're like and uh he i trust him uh there are multiple pieces and players going to winnipeg winnipeg wants to remain uh competitive they do not want to rebuild they i guess retool would be the right word or just maintain status quo they don't want to be bad but the names being thrown out there are gabe velarde and alex i follow uh ken sports nets ken weeb uh also added that jansen harkins could be involved as well um he's on the jets yeah uh so that could be part of the the move like you know winnipeg gives more someone had a tweet it's like uh between jersey i follow and velarde rob blake hates italians uh athletics moret antes has also said that dubois could be headed there as well they are

talking contract extension uh things are well on their way as of last night but then this morning uh from pierre lebrun the habs have tried it sounds like they're just simply not a great fit for the jets because the team doesn't want to rebuild and apparently what the jets wanted back from the canadians is kirby doc and what they're what the canadians are saying is no we want suzuki doc and dubois yeah that's that's what we want so the fact that there's multiple teams now has changed this entirely um which is great news for jets fans because the way we were talking about this at first is like oh yeah they're gonna get like a second round pick maybe for dubois because there's only one team he wants to go to as soon as it became evident

that that wasn't true you're able to ask for fair value maybe that changed second line center and Maybe that just changed, by the way. Maybe. I don't think that that was... Listen, there's a reason the guy was in Montreal last year. He expected there to be a trade. It almost happened. Yeah.

I think... I don't blame Pierre-Luc Dubois one bit for wanting to play in Montreal. That's his hometown team. Questionable sometimes the way he's gone about it. But at the end of the day, whatever. Did you like the pictures of him at the Grand Prix? I did. Yeah?

Yeah, he was in Montreal. Yeah, I got a bunch of... There was actually people, like listeners there, who were like... Who saw him and took pictures and like, he's here. Oh, I mean, he's allowed. And like sent me. He's allowed. Yeah, like, well, he's at the, so is Marner.

He's not going to Montreal. I don't know. Or maybe he is. What are the rumors? But, you know, with Dubois, what's interesting is that you've got, there is a better fit there than even you would think because Anze Kopitar is getting older. And I think when you have, and he's, listen, ageless,

but he's got a lot of miles, two Stanley Cups. He wants to get his third. Wouldn't it be nice to spread some of those minutes around? Dubois, Kopitar Dano Ugly And Byfield Yes

That's a friggin good team A lot of people were wondering would Byfield go the other way Yeah Absolutely not Second overall pick He's like 6-4 Scoring potential No way

No way I'd never do that okay i know kings fans are waiting for byfield to take a little bit of a step here like i know he got into a whole bunch of game he played like half season last year but yeah he had a good second half of the season injuries have kind of derailed him for uh quite a bit and he's still only 20 you know you expect a little more out of a pick that high at this point but there's still time to room room to grow for byfield i am not he had a good good low playoffs i'm not comparing these players in terms of talent stop comparing them but byfield and robertson two guys from i think the same draft um you know we put these wild expectations on them and they had weird development

because they were playing in the ahl even though they shouldn't have been playing in the ahl and they got injured like there's lots of similarities about their trajectory and everyone's calling them you know washed or a disappointment at 20 like at the end of their second professional year uh give it a fucking second redraft the top five picks from the 2020 draft alexis lafreniere quinton byfield timmy stusla who came to the senators from the eric carlson deal lucas raymond and jake sanderson also to the senators and then i'm not going to give you anybody else top five redraft those players sanderson went to the senators right yeah I think Stutzel

is first and there's no question I still don't think you can go wrong with Byfield you draft an enormous center number two Adam I want yours after Steve's Jake Sanderson looked good with the Sens I might go him third

i'm not gonna be stupid i'm gonna say laugh when you're fourth and raymond fifth because people forget raymond was unreal as rookie this season last year stunk oh boo no it didn't stink the first half stunk you're being mean adam what's your redraft you give her the names again trade to virus for him jesse i will i will again every time i will do that it went lafreniere byfield stutzla raymond sanderson steve went stutzla byfield i agree sanderson lafreniere raymond there's this i put raymond ahead of lafreniere i'm not blown away with lafreniere i what was your four five or your three four uh three i had sanderson three sanderson three okay and then lafreniere four laughing your four okay so we're

and adam what's yours i would i would have almost the same the first two absolutely third sanderson's three for sure okay so you have top three and then we've got who was the who were the it was lafreniere and lucas raymond lucas raymond i'd take before lafreniere i'm not a i you know maybe i'm wrong in this um a little low on lafreniere i still think byfield could be the best of all of them yes i agree and listen he's not just because he's such a pure center and that's if he develops in that role his underlying numbers were really stupid i think that there has to be room for this right like you know when i say i'm low on lafreniere it doesn't mean he's not going to be a good player uh in fact it probably means he's a hall of famer but

the guy's got uh 216 games he's got 91 points and i wonder if lafreniere is like a nico he sure type not a bad player very good player um if you know maybe nolan patrick without the injuries you know sometimes a first overall pick turns into a pretty damn good nhler but maybe not mcdavid matthews eichel whatever you want he sure he sure does a lot for the devils in a prominent role absolutely and lafreniere can't even really be a top half complimentary player he struggled now again though and on a team with a ton of support he's 21 oh man is we've seen him get chances that's the unfortunate thing that that on a very good team yes that first overall tag is such a boat anchor on him yeah because like let's say it's Stutzla

who is having the struggles that Lavernier has had because he's a third overall pick and not first it's so much easier to trade him for another top prospect who like you know also just could use a change of scenery sort of thing but when you get rid of a first overall pick oh that's so tough I'm looking at some of this stuff guys I don't even know if I take and I and again I'm not trying to just dump on Lafrenier for no reason but if we're really redrafting the 2020 draft I don't know if I take Lafrenier in the top 10 who else we got that's a little much Stutzla lucas raymond dawson mercer lafreniere seth jarvis anton lindell jamie drysdale jack quinn cole profetti quentin byfield these are just in terms of points jake sanderson um like there's

there's some good really really good player okay maybe he makes the top 10 but i don't think he's in the he's not in my top it's still lafreniere jarvis absolutely what was his draft year 2020 2020 no no sorry i mean like what were his stats for the 1920 season um for trying to figure out what happened uh 112 and 52 games yeah that's pretty good the queue i feel for lafreniere never know yeah because of the way drar galant messed with that lineup for the first two years of his that's a good point drar galant his favorite thing to do is hey every single game you're gonna have a different line mate and that can't be good for a player like lafreniere and his development you know when they had the kid line going that was effective

and he refused to stick with anything at any one time so i wonder if there's a more stable situation coming in new york and maybe he can get acclimatized to the nhl game a little better i think you bet on your guy you bet on your guy that you pick first overall yeah because what are the odds you win that trade like and if you lose it it's going to be catastrophic because then you gave up a first overall pick for nothing yeah yeah and like when you when you when you look at those top five players i definitely don't think just based on what we've seen out of these players like right right now i don't think he comes out top four like i don't think i think byfield's going to develop into the pier center uh timmy stutes is incredible already lucas raymond's

only trending up like jake sanderson looks amazing it's hard for lafreniere now to jump that but he should have probably been a third or fourth overall pick and not the number one and you're so right about that's going to be a boat anchor but the cue you gotta know what the cue there's always a risk yeah it is does have a thing he probably should have went three or four oh now saying that watch him just step out on the ice in october and and put together a hundred point season yeah we can all go fuck ourselves honestly like just put up or shut up sort of year it is yeah breakout year yeah i think that's fair and i so my book isn't it isn't written on him but i feel like none of these guys no you can't 2020 it was three years ago like we can't put judgments

on their career yeah let's do it let's do a way too early judgment on children and i called it at the time man uh the development of a lot of these guys picked in like these 2018 19 20 21 drafts it's gonna be a little fucked you're right and i the other thing i want to throw in there steve is is not just that but the nhl changed so drastically from 2010 to 2015 what what was expected out of players in 2010 versus what was expected out of players in 2015 2016 it was a completely different league completely different you had analytics you had fighters going out of the league no longer a part you know major parts of teams um and so what what happened was there was a and i hate to put it this way but there was like a calling of the people that could not hack it at the nhl level anymore

because the game changed very quickly then you bring in a new generation of young guys who are instantly good at it but here's the problem skaters yeah all those instantly good guys are all still very very good and so what we're seeing now is from 2016 to now yes the game has changed but i would say relatively it's the same you know there's some there's tweaks here and there but better shooters small fast speedy is usually sort of you know i know some people still value size and i get why big guys are fast now too they are and they like tage tom okay that's what i was about to say so but but the reason that the development curve might take a little bit longer is because these guys are doing what the other guys have had time to develop and do

which they stood out a lot more in a league that was a lot slower now they don't stand out because they're all the same that's right and it's going to take them a bit to get now the special talents are the tage thompsons who are six seven and also speedy and have the most incredible hands in the world also another great case study and not giving up on your prospects too soon oh my oh yeah he was nothing dude he was a non-factor yeah healthy scratch i wasn't he unprotected in the expansion draft i would think so i don't remember he was just a non-factor and then he's like oh i'm uh one of the best players in the league now i have the dirtiest hands out of anybody yeah i'm like bigger mario lemieux sorry about that like out of nowhere yeah

out of almost 40 goals actually nowhere yeah okay so uh a couple of like lifestyle things first off jesse um the golden knights uh yesterday uh were spotted getting tattoos uh jack eichel was actually take it there was a picture taken in the air and you know what's great is with this picture there's a k jeweler's in the background so they got it done at a mall and nice small tats are that's where it's at and they're all getting the golden night sort of thing on their leg and i just wanted to as a tattooed man both of you are both of you have tattoos uh i would like to know from both of you uh how you rate these tattoos okay well it's not a i have it in your text jesse if you need oh you said that awesome i did i did so front of the quad i i think would be that's where

they're doing it i'm pretty sure that's like a less painful spot to get tatted up is it i don't know i'm pretty sure well there's a few spots like like think of where you would not want to be pinched that's all the spots that hurt to get or hit with a paintball so outside of the arm not so bad inside of the arm oh that fucking hurts near the armpit that hurts even more ribs that fucking hurts like quad that's all right yeah as far as tattoos go yeah absolutely jesse you having trouble over there which means that vegas gold knights are soft ah they're soft and should have their cup taken back so here's got it in the soft this is jack eichel's new tattoo on his thigh um now the the by the way the purple is just the outline right like that's that's the stencil yeah

yeah so what do we think can we can we zoom in on that a little bit more here is this a good more do we like this more thigh got a big canvas to work with those are some some thick thighs some some good yams can i get to the yams well just completely so pasty though yeah for a guy that lives in vegas i mean you know yeah but like who's going out and you know you're not running around nevada in a speedo right i guess not yeah if you're boring yeah it's true jesse and i go we always wear speedos notoriously exactly and they don't kick us out of any establishment because it's vegas they let you smoke inside forget what you're wearing yeah anyway good that's a decent dad i've seen worse yeah does he have any other

tattoos i don't know doesn't from this picture you can't really tell yeah none that i can see i mean it's probably less painful than recovering from neck surgery yeah probably these guys do stupid painful shit all the time they do they do you're right too that's nothing yeah i don't mind it i don't mind it at all if you win the stanley cup like i don't care what the fuck you do that's pretty sick now this is very important though are your friends shitheads because if they know about that that's a great slapping area oh if you have shitty friends it's a great area to slap and what sucks is if you try to duck out of the way there's a really good chance they hit you in the balls so do you want to get slapped in

your tattoo or slapped in the balls you don't want to get slapped at either jack i hope you're safe and surrounded by loving family and friends because you don't want to get slapped in the freshly recovered tattoo or ball uh also uh connor mcdavid and i just sent jesse the the the instagram post on this connor mcdavid is engaged he hasn't posted on his instagram yet although he's not like always active on social media but his fiancee now lauren kyle did and they had the full you know cottage um cottage proposal uh you can kind of see there and they had a photographer on site which is very nice very pretty they got a picture of the dog wearing a suit on a dock i think maybe she saw it coming i think a lot of people like to see it coming

because they got to take a picture with the wedding ring on and they want their nails to be done properly that was something natalie was like listen i don't ask for much but make sure my nails are done and i was like okay oh the dog was there that dog suddenly do that i don't know i don't know oh good for connor yeah so happy for him okay they're a long time i actually remember uh she and i lived in the same building and i would see him out front yeah no but like it was like he was this just like when he was on his rookie deal like this is not you know 12 million dollars he was broke take me back to the old day he had a broke out he had a white uh four-door porsche uh the car version he parked it next to your porsche right yeah yeah right yeah what do you guys are both

renting out the top of the ritz right when i was driving my three thousand dollar bmw remember that my red bmw i had a bmw suv oh yeah for like a month terrible the worst car i've ever isn't that the car that you totaled no no that was a nissan zed oh the silver yeah somebody crushed you and mcdavid chilled yeah but i remember like i was i remember walking outside i'm like fucking connor mcdavid and then she walked i was like oh i guess we live in the same building that's wild he said is that fucking steve dangling you go no i'm it's i'm i'm adam yeah he said oh okay and then he left oh you're wealthier dangle

um the uh the coyotes had a bit of a weekend we should mention sean dursey i did a little bit of a breakdown uh on uh stpn's channel um sean dursey traded to the coyotes because apparently and this is the biggest news they've put out the word okay we're ready to assemble the team now i just want to give a shout out we hammer the coyotes so often and i gotta tell you it is always deserved absolutely always deserved ask me if i regret a word of it no i do not right always deserved please try yeah i need to give them a shout out for trying yeah shout out the arizona for trying in a trade and making a good one john dersey not bad we also didn't talk about the biggest news hockey news today which is deciding they made well i'm getting getting

to that okay no we should have led the show with that with connor ingram because steve was right about connor connor ingram i was right connor ingram uh you know his no i feel bad reading out his numbers because it's not fair but 6 13 and 8 with a 337 goals against average but here's the thing 907 save percentage that is on the coyote league average yeah and you know what is fair 1.9 million dollars yeah over three years well and that's quite a bit of change for connor ingram quite a bit of change but so it's the coyotes trying is the moves they make to acquire guys but it's also the moves they make um to keep so they're keeping ingram and i keep talking about Oh, Karel Vemelka, Karel Vemelka, move Karel Vemelka.

I don't think they're going to do it. And now they just got this really solid tandem where I think if they add a handful of players, it's going to be difficult for them to bottom out. Yeah, Vemelka, Ingram. That's like, oh. Hey, both of them were well above league average on a team designed specifically to stink.

That's like having Waugh and Brodeur on the same team. You know. You know what? team canada uh i actually i like it i like it i think by the way the la kings needed to make a move with dersey they've got two really good prospects coming up but i think dersey's interesting because he is mobile and can run a power play and and that sort of thing but my question in the video was who are they going to surround him with because remember clayton keller's dad tweeted he's never playing in arizona again and then wait a second that's not his twitter

account oh in no way is that reflective of how happy people are here clayton's really fucking happy here aren't you clayton say it um but i'm happy for sean dersey too because he's a really good guy um you think he'll get some ice time i think he'll get well he was getting 19 minutes a night in la wow so he's gonna get like 23 24 in arizona another guy who's like fairly young still yeah people gave me shit in the comments because i said he was sound defensively and and And they attributed it to his defensive partner more than him. And here's why I don't believe you. When Jake Muzzin was in Toronto and playing,

people said that Jake Muzzin wasn't as good defensively without Justin Hall. Because the numbers, they said, supported that. That was a thing that people said in 2020. When you have Muzzin without Hall, he stinks. And so when I see numbers like that, I'm like, I'll take LA Kings I'll take a little bit of that I'll take a little bit of that but

don't necessarily believe all the numbers because it was not strangely enough you'll be shocked by this outcome Jake Muzzin that was made better by Justin Hall that never happened so I just want to throw that out there that it can sometimes be the player even

if they drive you crazy now keep this in mind like they're going to be prepared for when they're right and i do think they're going to be right in the short term yeah uh because i mean who would you rather be the kings or the coyotes yeah exactly agreed jersey's gonna get a bigger opportunity but that also means he's gonna fuck up more yeah he's gonna fuck up a lot on a terrible team that's fine this team they need to start speeding this thing up because they need to have one a competent team and to a building for when dylan genther uh connor geeky and uh aku ratu am i saying that

correctly i believe is it aku or atu atu ratu yeah anyways when those three are ready because like there's a there's a nice little young core that's building within the coyotes because they've had so many draft picks they're gonna eventually start hitting on some of them and when all of these guys are getting ready they need to be able to get players into the system who aren't their own picks yes i think they read twitter and they saw hey they have more draft picks than they do signed players and so someone in the front office went wait i have an idea trade so let's yeah let's trade some and why why not like if listen we keep ragging on the coyotes because they have simply not operated like an nhl team but if they've acquired all this draft capital and they intend

to actually use it to make their team better look out they're not going to use all those picks they're going to trade those some of those picks no and they started the process even if you did like let's say you did use all those picks and you hit all of them you couldn't even keep all those players yep yep and they need they need not veteran players but nhlers who've been around for a while to play with all of these picks yeah and you can't just have an army of children no it doesn't work like we've seen teams try and it doesn't work that way no like well every successful team has had like a semi army of children and they've surrounded them with semi army of children semi army of children they've surrounded them with like gray beards like who's your gray beard

clayton keller well he's not i i still think they're gonna trade him because i think they can get a lot for him well and there's all these rumors about nick schmaltz yeah well who's left after that all right who could i guess you're they're around the stage where you need to start adding because in three years you're gonna have a bunch of young guys you don't have to you don't have to you don't want to have to trade them like you traded all the guys you did in the previous couple seasons and look at columbus um who struggles to acquire players and listen i don't really know if anyone's signing with the coyotes um because they love it yeah i want to play in front of fucking no one yeah let's no you're gonna have to trade for these guys yeah so and

even drafting players isn't a guarantee you'll have them right away look at connor geeky right so uh i i do think it's time for them to put on their big boy pants yeah so to speak they can't have they can't have like five um jacob chikrins where it's a young talent you develop them and then you're not ready to be competitive so you got to trade them like you can't keep doing that forever you need eventually surround the pieces with pieces yeah and they cleared space recently and i was like okay i guess they're just super duper bottoming out they're digging the weird to the earth's crust now like no i'd like maybe they're gonna actually try to they have arena they've uh they've only spent 53 million on the cap as of today and that's with

vorchek at 8.25 little at 5.29 both of those one more year and shea weber three more years at 7.875 and a little bit of oel dead cap space too so you know it's it's uh yeah listen i'm i'm excited for coyotes fans i am i said it in the video i jersey's a good pickup you start from there still bad but start from there i want an arena in scottsdale yeah uh speaking of arenas uh monumental sports and entertainment uh who we talked about last week they own the uh wizards they own the capitals and apparently they are looking at leaving washington uh moving to northern virginia which is just down the street uh they want to get closer to the amazon headquarters for some reason i guess there's some land out there but they want to build a new arena and

virginia lower taxes than dc uh a lot uh the washington football team the commanders i forgot what they're they should be the commandos they should they should have stuck in the football team yeah like that was that was one of the coolest names of football and they they got rid of it because fucking dan snyder sucks but he was looking at buying land in the same uh general area of northern virginia uh to move the team over there huh yeah so it's it's i don't i feel bad because i don't know if dc fans are like hey you're leaving us or if it's i mean if it's close enough where it doesn't matter virginia maryland and uh dc are all pretty close but i i still imagine it'd be a gigantic pain in the ass and what we were in that arena a few years ago for

a wizards raptors playoff game and it was perfectly fine when i was awesome yeah i went to the book signing in dc i stayed with ian from russian machine never breaks and his place was in virginia oh yeah it's it's a very short commute yeah it's very tiny it's it's probably less than the distance between Byward Market and where the Sens play in Ottawa. Byward Market is downtown Ottawa for people that don't know. A lot of Canadians

don't even know what Byward Market is. It's a shame because Canadians do not visit Canada. If you go to Ottawa, the place everyone tells you to go, okay. The arena is at least 20 minutes away from it. Minimum. You're being generous. Last thing I want to say before we wrap the show is, and this is something

we're going to have to do all year, so get ready for it. Every time Kyle Dubas speaks, Leaf fans will have to take it personally I saved this for last because it is the stupidest story of the weekend but I thought we'd end on a funny note the quote is somebody asked him about Pittsburgh and how he feels about it and remember

he's been there two weeks I think it's really impressed me with just the quality of people here and frankly how comfortable it's been in this city already but not just for me for my family Dubas told reporters at a press conference on Friday I think for us I'm from Sault Ste. Marie the time in Toronto I think the city is much

larger it's a great city but it feels just a little bit more like home and what it was like growing up here. Now, you've just signed. You just got fired and signed a contract for seven years and got a promotion. What do you think you're going to say

about your new city? Buddy, you give me a promotion and $40 million and it'll feel like home to me too. Leaf fans, you should not be mad at this man. Not for that reason anyway.

i bet it feels like home we have always talked about this it is there is nowhere where it's bad to be rich that's a good point johnny gadreau proved that that dude oh yeah rich how much money did the cow get 40 million dollars i think i could be happy for 40 million dollars that could be my home is that your number 40 mil a lot less you don't have any a lot less than 40 million i would house so many pervani sandwiches for 40 million dollars yeah they are called by the way go up to a mic and call anywhere home for that um i i was seeing a lot of like like anger from leaf fans online about it i don't know why but also i want to throw out there that uh pittsburgh is a great city it actually is a great city and it's a great place to live no and it's

imagine this affordable weird um steve here's 40 million dollars oh well you know growing up in scarborough to toronto is great and everything but i like my new home in yellow knife this is just feels like home and 40 million my home is made of 40 million dollars in yellow knife yeah yellow knife also you know how far 40 million dollars would go in yellow knife you walk not as far i just well because it's like bananas are like 20 bucks there oh yeah oh yeah that's but like gold house oh yeah you'd have a gold house don't ruin my bit sorry i'm sorry it's just very expensive to know you're right yeah it's not just gosh you know for 40 million dollars right this really feels like so you're

not taking what duba said personally no i'm gonna actively take every quote that he says and i'm and i'm making it about the leafs yeah no definitely take it first i'm taking it all personally fucking leafs fans calm down but i i need to say this uh-huh penguins fans you calm down what do you mean what are you talking about because i made that penguins fan set i i made a joke and i go buddy for 40 million dollars i'd say that too and they took that as me insulting dubas and being salty about it and oh and they're like get over it he's not your gm anymore i'm like i know because you gave him 40 million dollars to be your president yes steve i'm gonna spin the globe and i'm just gonna name places and would you live there for 40 million dollars okay

shanghai yes oh that's close you bet mexico city uh brazil uh-huh brazil's a big place where in brazil uh i don't know is rio de janeiro sal palo oh i want to say sal palo but i didn't know all right we've run out of time on the clock the tv clock we're wrapping up we will see you in nashville uh tickets have already sold out for our event there which is pretty spectacular another great place to be rich imagine imagine telling ourselves 10 years ago this still being our 10-year anniversary season uh that um that we would be selling out shows in nashville Oh, I'd be like, which car are we taking?

That's it. Yeah, we better drive down there because we can't fly. So anyway, thank you so much for all who got tickets. And we will see you Wednesday. We got our live stream Wednesday night. We'll see you Wednesday in Nashville. Wednesday in Nashville, but we get the live stream Wednesday night. You're going to get the show.

You're going to get the stream. And then Friday, we're doing the show. And then Saturday's free agency. Oh, yeah. Can you hit the extra, please? Oh, sure. Yeah, because we have an extra here. So wait for it.

I'm just laughing to myself. What? because this is around the time Jesse goes, Steve, what should we name this episode? What do you want to name it? I'm pretty sure we should call it 40 Million Dollars. No,

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