The Steve Dangle Podcast - Cost of Beer | April 11, 2023

Episode Date: April 11, 2023

On this episode of The Steve Dangle Podcast, Chris Wideman is upset that the Leafs destroyed the Habs (00:00), the Leafs are having emergency call-up problems (25:00), who's the favourite to come out of the West? (43:30), the Calgary Flames eliminate themselves from the playoffs (51:45), ridiculous Boston goalie stats (1:16:30), Shane Wright and Connor Bedard lose in the first round (1:28:00), Canada beats USA at the Women's Worlds (1:34:30), and the press conference! (1:42:30). Recorded: April 11, 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: 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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It'll be a couple weeks before the Leafs get what they deserve. Yeah. That's what they deserve. Whatever it is in two weeks, whether it's a win or a loss, they deserve it. Thank you, Chris Weidman of the Montreal Canadiens. Steve's like, I can't hear anything in my headphones. It's not plugged in. I'm sitting right next to Steve.

Do you need the headphones to win? Yeah, no, no. No, it sounds like I have water in my ear. Oh, okay. All right, do you want to plug them in? Plug them in, Steve. I thought I had a good intro, and then you guys are worried about Steve's headphones. They're not plugged in.

Oh, that's excellent. Well, that sounds much better. Chris Weidman says, at WrestleMania, the Leafs will get what they deserve. Yeah. Could you do it like a WrestleMania promo if you're Chris Weidman? Let me tell you, Leafs. You think you can just start a university student against us and have him win? And like we're going to forget about it?

At SummerSlam, the Montreal Canadiens are going to rise to the top. And we're going to get you right back. that is if the Tampa Bay Lightning don't get you first dig it yeah yeah uh we were we're speaking about Jesse and I were at the game on Saturday oh yeah Adam brought me to his season suite that was not my you've upgraded I have not your seats are so good there was it was a uh a we're working with MasterCard a little bit yeah and it was their suite and we were lucky enough both of us to be invited to that i was the plus one okay yeah adam was the one there doing the work to adam's season seats were the waitstaff attentive they better have even yeah they were not my seats

oh no no but speak about the waitstaff you didn't say they were lovely actually yeah she was great she was amazing she was on it actually i i was gonna tweet this out what's her name and i didn't uh oh you know i don't you piece of shit i don't remember anyone's name you know that that's not it's not anything against her i don't know anyone's name no i i don't know anyone i remember I remember when Maddie started at Virgin Radio. I accidentally called her Maggie once. Did you? Maggie!

Yeah, and I'm like, I'm literally bad at this. For a couple months, you just said. No, it wasn't for a couple months. No, I believe her. No, it wasn't. You're lying. I believe her. It was for a couple months.

No, it wasn't. Maddie is, oh, now I'm being defamed. Oh, no. I don't like this. You know what, Maddie? Like Chris Weidman said, you'll get what you deserve in a couple weeks. Yeah. Adam, what level of income does someone have to get to you?

to get to for you to remember their name? Like, what tax bracket do they have to be in? Listen, if you're not in the... What's the highest tax bracket in this country? 55% or something? It's a crazy high number. I don't know. What do billionaires get taxed, Adam?

That's a good question. Oh, they get taxed zero. They get taxed zero. What's Galen Weston like in real life? Sweater vest at every party. Did you tell the Stroll family to be faster? I did. I did.

And they listened. Yes, they did. They listened. I'm very excited about that Aston Martin car. Yeah. So, so I get to this, I get to the seat. Jesse's already there. Yes.

And I was, I was not late. I was there at seven o'clock. You were late because no NHL game since like 2005 has started on time. No, it is. I don't know what's wrong with the NHL in-game operations across the league, but a seven o'clock start is now like seven 25. I mean, I don't know, man. And you know what the thing is too, Jesse, they, they always bitch and whine and complain

about how they got to keep overtime short because they got to meet other TV schedules. If you started the games on time, we could have a full 10-minute three-on-three overtime. Oh, yeah. Maybe that's why they don't call any penalties. They don't want to slow the game down. It could be that.

It could be that. It could be. I mean, penalties shouldn't take that long either. It takes a long time for people to get to the box. It's like sometimes they're yelling and they're not skating. It's like, just go. Go to the, get out of here.

Get off the ice. Shut up. Or, yeah, shove them to make it faster. Yeah, exactly. You know what, Dan Kelly had a point. So I get to the game. I get to the game. And anyway, at the box, I bought a beer.

And at the end of the night, I'm settling up my beer. And I get my debit card out. And it's one beer. And the price is? I'm going to say $23. It's the Leafs. What's the price? $23.

What's the price for the Leafs? I'm going to ask you one more time. $67? $67. $19.67. No way. I have the receipt. i have a picture of it if you want to do they do that on purpose no so surely yeah yeah so okay so

talking about looking like a rich asshole i um look this is literally lived my life on the pin the pin pad that is from the 1967 purchase okay and it's adam so there's no tip yeah no right so we hadn't we hadn't got to the tip option yet no no we hadn't even got to the tip no he just keeps pressing green green green green so even so so anyway i see that so i look over at her and and automatically i assume that she knows exactly what i'm talking about because i'm like my life is perpetually on this podcast because if i if i looked over at you guys you guys would like have a chuckle about that i looked over her and i said are you kidding me with this she probably thought well i guess i'm just gonna get screamed at by some other rich yeah and then

she said she said well what's the matter and i said well it's 1967 not getting that she wasn't getting it and then and then she's like well that's what it costs i was like i was like no no no no and then she's like she's like what i'm like explain i'm like the last time the least won the cup is 1967 adam she just works and then yeah she was like she was like man why are you hassling me and she's like i thought you were gonna be an a-hole and i said oh no no i know she's not like 100 i know i know she's not a team employer and she works i know like like like my mind i have to know that you must at least know that like she works the raptors games too like i know i know anyway so are you kidding me with this that was my uh that's not a great and

after the game he went and had drinks with kate gosling that's right oh yeah that's obviously full yeah so so okay i want to talk about he was the other thing was when i walked in And Jesse's like, do you know the Leafs have signed somebody named Jets Alexander to back them up tonight? And I said, like, really? No emergency call? He's like, I guess we'll went down to the Marlies. We'll get to that in a second. Yeah.

And so the game plays out. And with 70 seconds to go, this U of T. I also told you something else that was very important for that game. Wayne Simmons. He was in the lineup. But hang on. I want to finish the Jets Alexander story. Because this is where it pertains to Chris Weidman, right?

How loud were all the fans when they said, Boo! We don't like this! Whatever happened to sportsmanship? This moment is terrible. I won't remember this or tell anyone. So the Habs, if you didn't watch the game, you know, dressed LaValle, right? They've had a ton of injuries.

They weren't even that good to start. They have a really good vibe around the team, but let's be honest, it's a rebuild year. It was LaValle and Brendan Gallagher. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the team. And they were like, and it was funny, because like whenever the Leafs got called on a power play after like sorry called on a penalty

like for called for a penalty after the first period like Sheldon wasn't even putting Mitch Marner out there anymore it would be like Noel Achari and um and Alex Kerfoot my favorite thing to happen all game was William Nylander got to play on the penalty kill yeah yeah yeah and he ultimate disrespect he should have had a hat trick he there was some he was on fire he was crazy good But the thing was, it was just no competition. And when the Habs went on the power play, they couldn't even get set up. Their power play is terrible. Well, it is.

Even when they're good, it's terrible. 100%. So it's something they've got to work on. So 70 seconds left. It's like 6-1. And you put in this guy, Jet Alexander, who's a U of T goalie, if I get – U of T. So you give him the experience of a lifetime.

How incredible. And what I don't understand is afterwards – and I guess if you're the media in Montreal – Like I'm trying to look at it from their perspective. You got to find – if you're a team, I get Chris Weidman's comment because if you're an athlete – like Tom Brady would win the Super Bowl year after year, and he'd be like, no one thought we could do this. And we'd be like, Tom, I think we kind of thought –

like you were the odds-on betting favorite. I bet I'd put two bucks on you. I just won two bucks back. Wasn't it Travis Kelsey who was like, yeah, no one thought the Kansas City Chiefs were any good. No, the Chiefs this year, honest to God, thought they were underdogs. That's athletes being a mess with it. I thought they said Steph Curry couldn't shoot.

So I get Chris Weidman's perspective on that because he's trying to get his team fired up. He's trying to win a job next year. Because let's be honest, Chris Weidman is not an NHL regular, even on this Habs team. No. And so I get it. I, you, you, if you're, if you're a guy who's on the fringe, you want to, you want to push, you want to be a great attitude, great leader. This is, you know, you're, you're, you do it for the, you know, what's on the chest

and you, you know, you're a Montreal Canadian, there's history, blah, blah, blah. But then the, the, the, the media in Montreal taken it the next level, which is it's bad sportsmanship and, you know, good sportsmanship. What was the one tweet you guys said? Who, who, who filled their diaper? The mass TSN Steve, I believe, uh, this is, yeah. Which is me, but evil. Steve Warning.

Oh. Or Warn. Now, he was a TSN radio morning host for a long, long time. And I guess what he said was, and I'll just kind of read it out to you. There's an etiquette to how you treat an NHL opponent in a blowout. No, there isn't. Continue. You don't put your top power play out there late in the game just for fun.

You don't put your top center on defense just for fun. and you don't put your emergency goalie in just for fun. Respect them to the end. What are you talking about, top center on defense? So here's the thing is that if Montreal wants to start Laval against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Toronto Maple Leafs are A, trying to lock up home ice advantage in the playoffs,

and B, trying to get tuned up for the playoffs, you use that as a practice game. Don't be down 7-1. Yeah, dude. Like, don't suck. Yeah. I almost understand the Jed Alexander criticism more than the power play one. Like, listen, you know I'm a Leafs fan, right?

But I do have a reverence for the history and the greatness of the Montreal Canadiens. Imagine the Montreal Canadiens teams of the past listening to this bullshit. Imagine Maurice Richard. Gila Fleur. Gila Fleur. Bernie Jeffery. Guys, it's unfair. we weren't on our game tonight and you shouldn't have scored so many goals against the reason why

you lose the power play after you score is because the montreal canadians scored too many goals when you used to get the full two minutes no matter how many times you score you should just be able to keep your power play and just keep scoring goals and they dominated teams too much they had to change the fucking rule the habs used to step on your throat so hard that they had to significantly change the rule they changed hockey yeah that is a fundamental part of the game power play ending when you score a goal it's because of this team they used to run up the score and is it because they lacked sportsmanship yes yes no it's because they were fucking great right and they were great and no one complains about it no i can't imagine anyone who has ever

worn that crest ever complaining about that so i think you know and i i understand i understand the rivalry i understand even the media gets into it right we get fired up i love watching the leafs crush the canadians i love watching the leafs crush the sins um i hate watching the boston bruins crush the leafs yeah i hate it but i hate watching the boston bruins win the past two ways that they've beaten the leaf 100 which is uh they win a close game uh i'd rather them kill them but um you know i think uh what this is at the heart of it is a really nice sort of moment for this jed alexander person who we may never hear from again he got to get into an nhl game he got an nhl check he got an nhl jersey no one can ever take that away from him no matter how

much um uh chris weidman or steve warren or any of the other people want to cry about it and i think that's that's the part that that i i really love is that this is those 70 seconds were his 70 seconds jesse watch this adam who's matt berlin i don't care i know i'm kidding that's a fine i'm joking by the way that's a fine answer what is it no i don't know matt he made a wall oh that was matt's wall Yeah, it was Matt's wall. Ironically, he is a goalie. Okay.

He's a goalie who the Oilers signed to a tryout contract this year. I think he was a U of Alberta goalie. And he played, like, a minute for them in the final minute of a game where they were killing their opponent. That happened this season. Do you remember anyone complaining about it? We talked about it on the show. I think it was Hyman he was good friends with.

Oh, that's cool. I forget who it was but yeah we talked about the show But those moments They live forever with that person But they come and pass in the NHL You know like it's a great thing at the time But like that's something that lives with Matt for the rest of his life you know he hangs that

Jersey up and imagine like You're Matt or you're Alexander And somebody's Sitting there poo pooing on the greatest Moment of your life That sucks Here's what would have been incredible and I kind of wish this happened it's a it's a face off in the leaf zone jed alexander started with a defensive zone draw

hab should have pulled the goalie should have pulled the goalie fuck this guy score on him score on him yeah on your first shot score on him there's no shots on goal send out your top power play unit send out five forwards and a d score on him like why not but but again their top ever play you and it's not very good well then you should shut the fuck up that's what I do the whole point is don't be down 7-1 and nobody's gonna clown on you well and I let me

ask you this like professional athletes right they're taught from the beginning to lean on if you see a weakness you lean on that if there's a little is a little space in the armor you hit that if you're if they if they're just coming back from a broken thumb

slash them across that there's a reason they don't disclose injuries in the playoffs right because people are psychotic and will hurt you and this goes back to the dumb ass era of don cherry bullshit saturday night i've never agreed with this take even when i was a little kid and his whole thing was oh you got you don't want to anger the hockey gods blah blah blah like you don't want to you don't want to disrespect your opponent because they might do it to you the next time well how about you just do it if they are not if they don't have the self respect to show up for a game and and they get their ass handed to them then maybe they learned

the lesson and if they do it to you next time then that's on you but how about you why would you make your life harder fuck them man this is this is competition why would I let up what's funny is I think that's born from the Leafs uh lit up the Bruins for the Daryl Sittler game where he had 10 points and then the Bruins didn't lose to the Leafs for something like four years but like lean into the sucked lean into that like say hey here's what happens here's what happens you want to go at us we'll go right back at you yeah we will never forget this that's good that's competition they hate each other great we like that i i don't understand i've never understood that and i think like it's one of the only sports i've seen where where it's like it's

it's ingrained a little bit in the culture like well you gotta you gotta be nice to your opponents what being respectful of your opponent if you let them up i think that's patronizing i think you're patting them on the head and going all right like little kindergarten kid enjoy your day at class i think the nba should have more sportsmanship alley oop nuts on your head they don't care no and in fact what i love about the nba is they'll disrespect you by playing their entire bench in the fourth quarter if if they're if they're really up that that's the ultimate disrespect to me it's like holy shit it's a little different because you look at uh other sports where there are ways to let up on your opponent like playing your bench like in football you can take

out the quarterback if you're up too many but in hockey your outfielder pitch yeah like literally when you when you're down by too much you throw in a position player and he's pitching he's throwing 40 mile an hour knuckleballs you know it's fun but in hockey you still got to keep the rotation because you can only play two minutes at a time so your top line's gonna get out there at some point and how can you tell these guys hey don't score like no the top line's got to be on the ice because that's the nature of the game and they're gonna still try to play their game i i will say it's your problem to stop them yeah that's what it comes down to i i think it was the the click harvest is is what it was um it's the last good story of the year for most of the media

there anyway until may when they win the draft lottery yeah um but it's you know you're gonna have a month of famine basically uh you're not gonna get a whole lot of clicks there's only so many feel-good think pieces you can write about i don't know like cole caulfield's recovery and just wait for arbor jack guy to get back like at some point you need something to talk about with the actual games which do not matter for the montreal canadians right now so you get pumped by the leafs people are mad how do i capitalize on that you talk about this power play that did let up on them i feel like that's lost in the whole narrative they did let up by starting their second unit what do you want the fourth line yeah pride and then they want david kampf that's what

they want yeah and they took a feel-good story and then what if he fucking scores on you right no he's not allowed to well i can't no stop being a pants shitting baby i guess is what i'm getting at um and then and there's jed alexander which is a great story which is great and then chris wideman drops a golden egg of a quote which is just it's a great quote we shouldn't mind that i don't it's the media being upset i don't chris wideman should be trying to be upset he should be upset about this that's what i'm saying he's way more popular with habs fans today than he was before he said that oh yeah like that's the guy who should be poking the bear poke the leaves you're looking forward job next year yeah which well and the one piece of feedback I had for him

in my LFR is listen the Habs are gonna be good pretty soon and when they are he ain't gonna be there unless you're like the Leafs and it takes you six years to figure out your defense could be that yeah could be that no I think there was a time where the Leafs were so thin on defense I would have been happy with him playing with Jake Gardner uh oh man like like and that's what they were making the playoffs they were terrible on defense he's had a very strange career yeah very strange so i i just i i think to kind of sum it all up um like get get chris weidman's quote get it don't understand the whole respect what like okay remember when the leafs lost nine to two to nashville that was a big turning point in steve's career and because it actually like took him to

the next level uh you yeah talk about pension but it was also a month did you the podcast first regular season did you at any point that's a lie second sorry did you at any point during that video say and i can't believe nashville didn't take it easy on the leafs no because i'm pretty sure their leading scorer was taylor beck the leafs were just shit you're terrible they were just ass yeah and it wasn't about if you want respect you have to earn it you don't just get it or a two-pack it's exactly if you're gonna get re-two-pack it takes a while uh now i do want to throw this out there uh there was some controversy before yesterday's game the leafs had a uh can we talk about wayne simmons oh wayne wayne okay so let's talk about wayne jesse also says to me he's

like this could be wayne simmons last yeah i was like adam how dare you show up late this could be wayne simmons last career game like not i thought maybe it's last home game ever like we give him a Nice round of applause and all that. But it looked like it was going to be his last career game. I hope he plays tonight. But, yeah, he might get into one of these away games. Really hope he plays tonight. We got Tampa.

We got New York. You know, he probably should beat up on them a little. It would be nice. Or at very least keep the peace. Yeah. And during that game, I don't know, Adam, if you felt it, but I kind of felt it like he knew that this could be it. He goes out there.

Oh, yeah. He fights. He played great. He played unreal. He drew a penalty early on. Almost had a breakaway in the first period. Yeah. almost at a breakaway winning puck battles and um man i gotta tell you i've i've liked this player

from his first pre-season game in the nhl michael pizzetta is out of his mind like oh going head toe-to-toe with wayne oh yeah yeah and like to give him that honor i mean i guess someone had to do it i also think if you're michael but not really like do you hate the fact that that wayne tuned you a little bit like it's kind of a like i'm sure you don't love getting a punch to the badge of honor but you like normal people do not want that but he's in the NHL so he's not normal exactly I almost feel like hey listen I Wayne and I told you know uh when he's when his career's done and he's talking about fights or whatever he'd be like I once fought Wayne Simmons it was one of his last games and it was an honor like I think that's probably how it was yeah from the

first game I watched him I'm like I don't know how good this player is he's gonna get an NHLPA pension because he's going to be in this he's he works too hard and he's too willing to do everything yeah to be denied and the reason montreal is scary is that they have a couple guys like that arbor jack i i think is exact same mentality and that dude is going to be around for a long time same mentality except he's not willing he'll just kill you it's completely different yeah and then with with wayne one thing you could see if you have seasoned seats and you're in the building is that when he came out of the box after he served the five minute the entire bench is there stick taps yep you know he's so great they they appreciate him they love

him and it was it was a cool moment i think he recognized what it could be and you know if this is the last if this is it for wayne like he doesn't get into a playoff game um like what a career i gotta be honest after that i gotta be honest with you the way he played against and i get it's a depleted montreal lineup and and everybody looked good but he plays like that i don't see how he doesn't get into a playoff game but he was very he was and i've been on of the three of us, I've been the most on him this year. Unpopular opinion, I think. He's had more good games this

year than bad. I agree. He's had a few bad. I agree. I think with Matthew Nyes being the reserve now, it kind of pushes him out. Well, and Holmberg. There's too many bodies. There's too many bodies now. I think Wayne's a little... He might be 13 or 14.

Or sorry, 15. I don't know. We'll see. Might get in. Hats off to Wayne. I think I think so so yeah the Wayne thing was great

and it also brought the arena to its feet like the when they booted because it was I think with 441 remaining in the first when he

you know so they skate them off the ice the rounds of applause that you wouldn't have been able to hear because you were on your Saturday night stream were it was very loud

I don't have season seats but also I don't get game audio it's been two years I haven't heard a Saturday game except for one time I broke my nose

and I was able to hear it That was it. That is really weird. Oh, yeah, because you were hanging with me on FaceTime. I was hanging out with baked you and your baked wife. I'm making us laugh. It was great. So then last night, you know, Florida's got a lot on the line here, right?

The game last night matters to the Panthers because it doesn't matter to the Leafs so much because Tampa loses the night before, Toronto clinches home ice, and obviously the Panthers are still fighting for that wild card. Toronto is battling for 4-5. which is a very important matchup if they go a little deeper in the playoffs because that's them and the Rangers. Yeah, I think they passed the Rangers. Yeah, they're currently in four.

So to connect the two topics, that great Wayne Simmons moment came at a cost. So the Leafs had the option of calling up Wayne Simmons or Joseph Wohl. They chose to call up Wayne Simmons. They gave him his moment at home. Then in the road game against the Panthers last night, the Leafs made the assumption we'll be able to call up wool on emergency recall right the NHL emergency recall is up to the NHL's discretion and they decided uh well no you didn't need to call up Wayne for this game you could have just called up the goalie that you need so no we're

not granting this to you were you getting to that yeah yeah let's take it let's take it there oh sorry I just I wanted to no that's fine that's exactly where I was going okay oh well there you go um but what i was trying to do was set up the fact that the the panthers are undoubtedly in this game and the reason i wanted to say that and i thought it was important when it comes to them having to sign another backup goaltender on an emergency basis is because um the leafs then had to start sergey samson off again and that's where sergey samson ilia ilia samson off not sergey samson off it's a tough habit i know it's brutal it's brutal um so when samson off has to play again people are going like what if he gets injured what if he gets is it samson off is that

what we're saying it's it's samson off i was saying simson off because i was being stubborn back to my khl days uh-huh and then elia himself came out and said just say sam okay samson off yeah sammy and and switch so and of course we all hold our collective breaths yesterday when he gets he gets you know run into again and you just kind of go like it's it is a sort of a pain in the ass that a matt murray is out and b that they can't recall their goaltender although as andrew berkshire rightly pointed out the leafs didn't have to sign matthew nyes nope right so and they used all their cap space doing it my complaint first of all can you uh take a peek if joseph wool has been called up no okay yeah oh he hasn't you know he's not not yet interesting interesting

I'm watching for that. The other thing. So let's get this clear. The Leafs were 100% in the wrong. And the NHL was right to deny them Joseph Wall. By the rule. By the rule and by precedent. Right.

Which is something I'm big on. The NHL never follows their own precedent. They did here. They set the precedent with the Rangers. They said, fuck you. Too bad. You have to play short. So they did.

That was when they were trying to trade for Patrick Kane. Yeah. They made their own. For two games. Yeah. They had to play with like, I can't remember. Because they put themselves in cap hell where they couldn't field the team. And they said, that's your own doing.

You don't get emergency recall. So what I said is, why is this the line? Like, okay, fair enough that you're not allowed to do this. Why are you allowed to do this and that and that? Yeah, but you're changing the argument. I suppose. That's like a kid who doesn't do their homework and they're like, yeah, but that one time I did that. And you're like, that's not what we're talking about right now.

Okay. as that kid brought me back to that moment but i like the example that i brought up was brent seabrook with the tampa bay lightning and so puckpedia and i puckpedia took the time to actually explain what was going on and i really appreciated that but it it's not the lightning acquire brent seabrook and then they're able to just avoid cap rules what the trade was like i was right for the wrong reasons sort of thing so what the trade was was brent seabrook comes to the lightning tyler johnson comes off their books and goes to the blackhawks one guy can play the other guy can't tyler johnson can play brent seabrook can't so the lightning are able to dump tyler

johnson to a team that wants him and that cap it whereas brent seabrook comes he's on ltir so his cap hit is net zero yes but the lightning they still come out of this no benefiting from acquiring a player who's never going to play again yes they they did benefit from it but the light why is that allowed because the lightning acquired brent seabrook and had the salary cap to do that they went so so i understand a lot of a lot of people were talking about boston too on sunday they they had five emergency recalls jake they i can brandon bussey connor carrick Vinny Letary and Oscar Steen So Boston had the salary cap

For all of those guys The thing about post-trade deadline You could have a roster of 800 people As long as you have the salary cap to do it And they did Were they emergency? 800 people on 50 contracts Yes, you have a 50 contract living in your organization

So yeah, they recalled all these guys And they have that, they have the cap space It doesn't matter if it's emergency or not They have the cap space to do it, who cares That's fair, they can field these guys So the Leafs didn't have the cap space because of their own doing. So there's no – It is their fault.

Yes, 100%. I think we're all in agreement. Are there other rules in the NHL that don't make sense? Yes. Yes. 100%. We can all agree on that too. But there's no reason to cry for the Leafs when they took the chance themselves, Dubas and Pridham and the rest of the big boys upstairs, said we're going to try it.

We're going to sneak this one by Gary. And it didn't work. And it didn't work. So, like, I can't feel bad for the Leafs and complain. Oh, I don't feel bad for them. There was a video. So, Rachel Dory, who's worked for the Devils and Canucks, has a TikTok account called Puck Bucks. It is spelled how you think it is spelled.

And she did a video explaining the whole thing. And the way she described it is the Leafs should be able to call a bull today on an emergency basis. If they count yesterday as the emergency. Yes. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. But you could also make the argument that the NHL looks at it as this is a continuation of the cap situation that you put yourselves into. The emergency that you created of your own doing.

And that'll last until you fix your shit. I hope not. Well, and then, so like, let's say, I don't know if this would work. but let's say they send down some other forwards or whatever on their team in order to recall Joseph Wolfe, then you can't rest your forwards who you were hoping to rest. And now you're picking and choosing. Like, do we rest Sammy?

Do we rest Matthews? Elliot Friedman is saying today that he doesn't think Samsonov will be playing tonight as well. He just said this two minutes ago. And then Nick Chouinard, who dressed yesterday, can't dress today and was not on the ice in practice. We still don't know who the practice goalie was, but he was not on the ice in practice in Tampa.

What an adventure. yeah this is fun they still haven't announced that wool's up no nothing yet they have i wonder if that'll happen at two usually because it's 12 43 as of this recording so i'm wondering if it's that's a 2 p.m thing usually waivers are two so yeah i don't know yeah i'm watching this pr it's not happy so yeah i mean another option is they could make a trade so the thing about the trade that i have to correct you on that you said in your lfr you they can't play i said it into a microphone i'm they can't so you said that you can acquire jonathan quick jonathan wouldn't be able to play for the leafs no he can play he just can't play no no so we have that we have that

incorrectly you can't if you make a trade post trade deadline you can't play for the team in the regular season or playoffs when did that change that's always been the rule we've just said it incorrectly i don't know about that yeah i'm like pretty sure you can't you can't play for the team if you acquire them post trade really yeah where'd i wow where then where do i get that I don't know. Someone who was wrong, I guess. Yeah. Oh, shit.

Okay. Nah! Wow. Nah, I said it on camera, Jesse. So a couple of things did happen last night. The Leafs obviously won. But more importantly, we got to see Matthew Nyes. After all this buildup, almost gets traded to Chicago last year at the trade deadline.

Sticks around. Wants to go to the Frozen Four. Tough loss. But gets to play for the Leafs. And starts. Shouldn't have made his debut. Yeah. Starts on a line with Achari and Kerfoot.

yeah and they get things they get things going in the first period and there's it seems to be i don't know he seemed to be okay they only had one or two bad shifts um yeah he was he was a good battler he was a good um uh he was digging in the corners he had some really good defensive stick lifts he got fucking train wrecked a couple times which happened uh gavani smith was one of them can't or ekblad did ekblad hit him um but i mean it was a it was a nice i mean geez this is a welcome to the nhl road trip you get both florida teams and the rangers like this guy's gonna play at msg yeah you know what i mean no disrespect to amelie or anything but uh it's a pretty serious i mean it's madison square garden yeah why are you disrespecting yeah because fuck them no because

madison square garden is one of the most iconic sport buildings on the continent it's the same thing something else happened austin matthews got his fifth 40 goal season that is the most in leafs franchise history um uh basically he's now reached 40 goals four straight seasons um he is 25 where does austin matthews stand in all-time goals for the toronto maple leafs currently yeah he's 299 and he's tied i think he's fifth yeah he's tied with rick five so tonight he scores another goal uh he will this is crazy at 480 games he has 542 points so he will get his 300th goal if he scores in any of the last two games obviously and he will move into fourth place barring a catastrophic injury he's going to be a like first ballot hall of famer yeah i don't

know if it's depressing but it's pretty depressing that it's 100 depressing a franchise that's more than a hundred years old this guy austin matthews has been here for what eight years yeah yeah and And he's going to be fourth by like two days from now. And you know what, Jesse? All-time goals? Andrew Berkshire said it best once. Remember in 2017 when they came out the top 100 players of all time? Andrew's like, there is a disturbing lack of star power on this list.

Like, once you get past the top 10, it's just a bunch of like— Top 100 players for the Leafs. For the Leafs. Yeah, yeah. Top 100 players of all time for the Leafs. It's terrible. No disrespect, but JVR made that list. JVR should not make that list.

FNUF made that list. Bozak made that list. Did Bozak make the list? Actually, no, wait. Maybe he didn't. It was Phaneuf. I don't think Bozak made the list. Maybe Bozak didn't.

But it was... Holy... Castle made it. He should have. But yeah, it was not a great list. No. And so I'm looking at this. So here's the thing.

There are 10 Toronto Maple Leafs. And this is a quick early trivia for you guys. Okay. 10 Toronto Maple Leafs have scored 40 goals or more in a season. Name them. Matthews, Tavares. Yeah. JVR.

JVR is not on the list. Oh, he never hit 40. Same with Kessel. Never hit 40. No, he's the best 40-goal scorer to never score 40 goals. Yeah. Kadri? Kadri at 40?

No, he didn't. Not here. Para 32-goal seasons. Well, Vive. Mm-hmm. Glenn Anderson? Nope. Anderchuk?

Sundin. Dave Anderchuk did score 40 goals. Sundin did score 40 goals. So we're up to five. Oh, Sittler. Sittler. Sittler, we're up to six. Actually, hold up.

Yep, Sittler. He did it four times. Lanny McDonald. Lanny McDonald did it three times. Mohavlij? Mohavlij did it as well. Nice. What's left?

One? Actually, I get you wrong. There are 12 players that did it. Sorry, that's my match. That's a lot more. But the guys that did it are, if you get any of the last four, you got the main guys. yeah if you get any of the last four guys uh like coffee's on me were they born in the 18th century no no no no no they were all 70s 80s i was about to say charlie said so yeah

70s 80s did rob ramage nope rob ramage defenseman i think wasn't he hap it was hap day not hap no that's the 30s 70s 80s i said uh it's the you know it's think about the 80s right think about how goofy the 80s were yeah tim horton no defenseman wendell clark never did no no got close 37 domfus no good guess though think who else played with domfus it was that era oh well i said glenn anderson he was one of the clark never did gilmore never did do you want to hear him yeah you're gonna you're gonna be mad about the first one the first one you should have you should get you should get fuck felix popman eddie olchek ah you scored 40 goals with the leaf 42 and 87 88 uh the guy

who was who famously wore number 99 for the toronto maple leafs wilf paymont 80 81 never would have got that builder lago who would have been olchek's line mate 40 goals 83 84 And Errol Thompson, probably the least known 40-goal score in NHL history. Errol Thompson. 75-76. I've never heard that name. So Potvin's not on the list. Potvin's not on the list.

It's crazy. Kiss my ass. He never allowed me to score goals. Maybe it was a little overrated, Steve. Maybe you should kiss my ass. I did love seeing Tavares play 2 minutes and 27 seconds of overtime and then scoring. I leapt from my couch. That was crazy.

That was one of the best goals all year. yeah there were the Leafs were not winning that line change contest which is exactly what that three-on-three was Tavares was not even the only guy I think to be stuck out there for at least 90 seconds and like TJ Brody played at least three quarters of that overtime um and I have no idea how he had the juice and I tell you what for a guy who has banged the drum so hard uh for his team en route to trying to make the Stanley Cup playoffs. What the fuck was that effort from Matthew Kachuk?

Horrible. Like full credit to Tavares. To quote Shaq horror awful. Horror awful. I think that was Charles Barkley. Oh it was Charles Barkley. Yeah but and then Shaq said what did you say Chuck? What did you say Shaq? And he goes horror awful.

And he slaps something and then points. And then Barkley goes women in San Antonio. oh my god what'd you say what'd you say yeah i i gotta apologize uh churros last night oh my god how the fuck hasn't he been kicked off tv it's crazy isn't it it's crazy anyway it's amazing yeah it's something this is called a show it's the intermission pedal every now and then kenny and shack just have a race mid-segment yeah back to the yeah so anyway um no like Like, Tavares, full credit, great effort, great move.

How doesn't Kachuk catch him? Right. He dogged it. Well, of course, because he can. No offense to Johnny, but his speed comes from his short quickness and not, like, straightaway speed at all. Unless there's something I missed, there's no way Kachuk was more tired than Tavares.

Tavares was out there for two and a half minutes. But when you're drinking kale every morning, that's what you're drinking it for. Game 80 against the Panthers Kombucha The guy is like That's where being in shape really matters It's something like that

Do you want to tell the kombucha story from JT? Yeah, I need Matty's reaction This guy, earnestly, honest to God Maggie Maggie Simpson John Tavares has a Kombucha keg In his house

So if you've ever, yeah, I'm jealous too It's not that good No, but it's the status If you've ever wondered what someone Who makes 11 million dollars a year Makes, and Adam's not around To ask him, John Tavares Has a

Kombucha keg Maggie said it must get expensive Yeah, how much does a kombucha keg cost? Let's look that up Can you look that up, Margaret? keg oh yeah bottle of kombucha six bucks expensive for a kombucha keg it's 120 dollars comes in cinnamon apple pie sour apple berry cranberry blue pomegranate lemon ginger beet lemonade violent oh sorry violet lemongrass not violent lemongrass carrot pina colada and

cucumber pear what's on rich boys stuff.com from loon kombucha kombucha i'm sure somebody get on me about how i pronounce kombucha kombucha that was all because of the uh the i did a i did a thing with the leafs on media day where i said you know what would you get so and so for christmas and everyone who got tavaris or when tavaris came up they're like i'd get him kombucha and i'm and someone oh it was giordano city had a kombucha keg and that is amazing and then you asked jt about it well yeah i was like no they're for sure messing with me like and then no jt's like yeah as if to be like is that not normal um what a guy doesn't everyone have this uh one last thing my friend adam told me all about it cam charron said the leafs could have something

if the nhl wasn't married to its current playoff format the leafs could be going for second place uh in the eastern conference tonight so they're currently by the old way the old ways of the force they would be fourth and they could jump right up to uh even with carolina tonight we could see we could have saw like leafs islanders panthers leafs islanders yeah we could have seen range don't tell me that it doesn't make a difference it fucking makes a difference stop stop with that nonsense you guys know that's not you know you're being disingenuous and by the way how did gary's boots taste that's what i'd really like to know like i'm shocked sometimes by the amount of people who are like love the playoff format uh and i also think the cap system is good

for small market you should wait for drew to at least be in the room i know yeah well okay so i want to talk about that with you can bet that here okay so so kale mccarr no timetable set for his return yeah that's uh which sucks so my question is is now the time to go after um like a two dollar steve on the oilers going right to the finals oh i think before that yeah but with kale mccarr and the experience the abs have you at least would have thought about it but now i'm not even sure that you do it makes the the uh the avalanches remaining games that much more uh uh important um because you want to be playing one of those weaker western wild card yes yeah um but you're not going to get that if you're in second everybody everybody's on the oilers and

everything and like they're my pick probably gonna be my pick the coming out of the west the hottest team in the nhl but i know you don't like him adam but laurent brossois and the vegas golden knights are pretty damn good they are good and there's a good shot that they come out of the west so it's very interesting because i was i was talking to justin fisher about this i in terms of competitiveness love the oilers playing the kings um i think it's the closest thing to um the Leafs and Lightning in the first round where you're like

oh jeez like one of these guys have to drop in the first round fuck but I think a second straight year of ideally a seven game series between those two would be incredible

but the only way we're going to get it is if the Oilers or Kings pass the Golden Knights if the Kings beat the Oilers in the first round and the Kings win the Stanley Cup

I honestly Jesse they carry that I am a thousand percent on board with that a hundred they are Then, like, everything's out the window. Kings are winning it.

The LA Kings this year are the most complete team, especially when they got their goaltending sorted out. Yeah. They are the most complete team in the Western Conference. They are good at everything. I think that's probably their toughest matchup. Like, I was just on the Golden Knights. But, like, if they are, like, what we think they can be,

then I'd change my mind and be like, okay, now it's the Kings. It's the two hottest teams in the league. And for anybody that hasn't been paying attention, it's because Quick and Cal Peterson had, like, a save percentage combined of, like, 850 in the first two months. they were literally unplayable they were worse than martin jones at his worst it's it's kind of

bizarre how good corpus allo has been because you look at two goalies who are equally as terrible on the same team and you go all right this is a little bit the team's fault isn't it and then corpus allo has come in and been one of the best goaltenders in the league since the trade deadline they added gavrikov too but like he scored last night i mean geez he should be up for the vet uh the well yeah the vesna too yeah yeah he should be up for the norris and everything people are in my shit about gabber cop i still don't think he's that great people like he was on a bad team i'm like yes and look at that his numbers improved on a good team this is so crazy i don't think he was worth the price i don't but he scored so dunk the price wasn't as

so the other thing i want to mention and i want to bring this up because i'm bragging since it is about the oilers and it is you can bet that my two dollar bet on connor mcdavid Scoring between 65 and 70 goals. He has one goal away. He has 150 points. He got that this year, or this weekend, sorry. He has 64 goals. I need one goal in two games.

Can I get it? Who are the Oilers' last two games against? Let's find out. There's a really good chance he doesn't even play the last game. So tonight, Colorado, and then San Jose in game 82. Oh, man. On my birthday. Will Connor McDavid score on my birthday on Thursday?

How much did you win? I win $7.80. That's not bad. That is not bad at all. See, they actually have spots to play for, too. I think their game against Colorado is going to be hugely competitive, and he'll be in it. There's a real good chance he does not play that San Jose game. Dude, it's the Sharks.

I know. They were bad last night. By the way, I can't believe it came down. And we'll get to the Flames for them needing San Jose to do something for them to save themselves. I can't believe it took this long to mention them. Hilarious. I was going to lead with them today, but I thought, ah, we'll save it. There's a lot of Leafs stuff.

There was a lot of Leafs stuff. But the Flames are unquestionably today the most talked about. And we're going to have Julian McKenzie on tomorrow to break it all down for us off the top of the show. Happy birthday, Julian. It's Mace's birthday, so we're going to let him off the hook. I did book him for today, and then Jesse's like, you know it's his birthday, right? I was like, shit. So I texted him back.

I'm like, please, happy birthday. Please continue to do your birthday stuff Oh Adam texted me Can you do extra work That's so Adam I know I know Also get COVID Yeah I hope you have COVID

Can you please come on From his yacht So with the Oilers I feel like Are they going to get this That's what I want to know Is Conor McDavid going to score in the last two games So wait if he scores

So you need him to go no goals. Yeah, he needs one goal. Because it's a window. 65 to 70 goals is what I think. Oh, you have 65 to 70. Oh, man. You'll get it. He'll get it.

I mean, I think he's going to score. I think he's going to score against Colorado. Yeah? Yeah. I feel like this Colorado game, like, it matters, but it doesn't. You know what I mean? It's sort of like, does it set the tone for anything with the playoffs? Probably not.

It's a pretty good tune-up. Yeah. And there's no Kael McCarr out there. kind of get to know what you get what you may face right yeah listen there's a commercial and i forget what the commercial is for but i learned from that commercial that kale mccarr is the only person in the league who can shadow connor mcdavid it matters a whole lot for the standings like just looking at them vegas is at 107 edmonton's at 105 colorado's at 104 dallas is at 104 they're all right there and they can all hop each other so you think

So you think Conor McDavid brings it? Yeah, yeah. If you can win, they can become first in the Western Conference just by winning the next two games. And Vegas loses a couple. So there's something serious on the line here. Home ice throughout the playoffs. That's serious.

It's a solid. They've got to be going for it. I cashed my Sidney Crosby reaches 1,500 points bet. So I won, I think it was 364 there. and William Nylander to have the most goals on the team, I bet no. Ah! I also bet you're going to lose.

You're going to lose. There's still time. There was also a William Nylander, Jesse's really get over 50 goals. I bet no on that, and I think I win. Oh, and I took the under on that. Oh, you did? What did I get?

Hold on, hold on. William Nylander, 50-plus goals. It pays out $2.18. Let's go! I'm going to win 18 cents on my bet, which I love. 40-40? I did pick yes on the 40-40, which we still have. Have they done that yet?

No. I don't remember. They both got to get there. Matthew's got it. Oh, yeah. Matthew's got it. Willie's two away. Willie's two.

Honestly, man, he should have had it against Montreal. He's playing well against Tampa. We'll see what happens tonight. By the way, CJ is now tweeting that Toronto could be starting an ATO goaltender tonight. Good. because Sam Sonoff has not done this all season. They're not going to... Play him on a back-to-back.

Play him on a back-to-back. Yeah. Who cares? I don't give a shit. It's also good for the Leafs' defense. I have noticed, and I know I want to get to the Western Conference in a second here,

I've noticed a few bad giveaways and stuff. So if maybe having an ATO goaltender in there, like a couple of McCabe giveaways have given me a little bit of pause. Yeah. And I'm wondering if like, just use it to clean it up a little bit, you know? Unpopular, let the Leafs off the hook.

opinion they've been totally coasting they've just been playing generally engaged and they're saving it fair enough they're saving it i think the lightning save it too if the winnipeg jets will switch it up because we got to get over to the other western conference the winnipeg jets win tonight they're in yep and why calgary has already eliminated themselves that's such a good way of putting it so are we talking about the jets or are we talking about the flame well i will talk about the jets after because the story is the flames the jets were the team you were that was on the fringe right if we i don't even know where we all picked them in our in our divisional you know we did our previews right right but i had them out i think that i probably did too and it's

like the only thing you can't bet against is connor hellebuck and i believe i would have said that at the beginning of the year and he's been incredible he's been amazing calgary lost 31 goal games this year that's right three zero one goal games this year now last night they were up in the shootout had they taken care of business they'd have been fine today Daryl Sutter for the third shooter Calgary is already up one goal we're in the third round of the the first Calgary's the first shot they he's got Tyler Toffoli sitting on the bench it's the team's leading scorer Dude, like, even Mangiapane. Who's he pick?

Nick Ritchie. And apparently their team, or their career shooting percentage in the shootout against whoever they were facing was the same. Yussi Saros. Was the same. Listen, Linus Olmark has done some historic things this season. Yussi has dragged that team. Dragged that team in the playoffs. I think there can be two different awards here.

there can be best goalie and biggest world beater uh like omark best goalie i get it no one has stolen more games than uc soros yeah in the maybe hellebuck yep maybe hellebuck and so like soros so they put nick ritchie up against uc soros for the playoffs and he did score against soros earlier this season with arizona that's cool but who's your goal scorer fucking anyone other than Tyler Toffoli is your goal scorer yeah Tyler Toffoli yeah Tyler Toffoli didn't even get to do it now um I I also want to throw out there that there was a tweet that you mentioned and we don't have to bring it up on the show but Markstrom way out of the net again he's um he's in that game I I gotta stay between the pipes I don't know who their goalie

coach is I don't know who their coaching staff is and this again goes back to I don't know who the leader of the calgary flames is you know i don't like a lot of the old school shit uh like the macho bravado shit like we've talked about and we we referenced that story where uh ty domey was young in his career and he was acting up and mark messier grabbed him by the collar and pinned him to the wall how hasn't someone grabbed jake markstrom and shaken him and said stop fucking playing the puck how has no one grabbed him and said you are without argument the single worst puck handling goalie in the national hockey league fucking stop and he always does it in the first period as well so he fucks his team and puts them down early he did it in the playoffs he did it

earlier this regular season he's done it now fucking stop you stink at it you're a fine goalie stay in the fucking net if you're a goaltender 10 the goal that's me being cheeky about it this is me saying you're actively fucking your team jacob who can't score no they can't score we know they can't stop are you out of your mind every time he leaves the net he's out of his mind he said well you know maybe his defense could have been in better position yeah well you know what negates all of that staying in your fucking net stop it like how has no one gotten through to him you're not good at this you put us at a disadvantage like he shouldn't i'm well it's too late now it's too late now i was gonna say you shouldn't play a

game for them for the rest of the season it's too late now the damage is done well what are you gonna just start dan vladar for the playoff push what i yeah the other guy won't fucking listen other guy won't listen he's selfish vladar it's a selfish thing to do vladar was on fire for a little bit there you know when they're winning yeah like listen i i don't i don't want to attack his character i don't know the guy but how has no one said you keep fucking doing this this is at least like the dozenth goal they've surrendered because he does not know how to play the puck over the last like season and a half two seasons stop no one is a worse offender in the nhl than this guy and to me that is so much more noteworthy than playing nick ritchie in the shootout now

playing Nick Ritchie in the shoot is objectively stupid but at very least there was an argument for it like there's some logic like okay he might not beat most goalies we know he can beat this goalie because we've seen him do it I disagree but there is evidence that he can do it how in game 80 game 80 is markstrom still doing that shit ride pine brutal unacceptably brutal i didn't think you'd be that passionate about it whatever did you jesse like i don't know okay i appreciate it because it's like the the season didn't come down to nick ritchie being in the shootout like that's all that's the narrative it was i think the reason i brought up the nick ritchie thing and i'm sorry to cut you off the reason i brought it up it's not nick

richie it's it's it's the coaching staff staff's ethos that they're gonna fucking grit a goal out in in shootout like like what do you what do you did you want him to go into the corners too daryl like what do you want here i mean it's a fitness or sorry fitness finesse move who's the finesse player on your team i know you hate guys who are fancy and handsome and don't didn't grow up on a farm i get it but fucking play your scores man yeah so so that's my there's my passionate rant but no no with with with steve's thing about markstrom it's like okay the season didn't come down to nick ritchie in the shoot that was the conclusion of it that's when you got eliminated but the season for the calgary flames was a whole bunch of errors like that that's why you're so

right about your rant is because there was a million different things that went wrong with the Calgary Flames, and they chose to kind of fix none of them throughout the season. They kind of just kept hammering away at what they were all year long because they had marched them. Because the owner is going to fire the GM this offseason. Owner's firing the GM this offseason, and he loves the coach. The owner loves the coach.

That's what's happening. Sorry, Jesse. That's why. Go ahead. Well, all stats seem to indicate they're just unlucky, and they'll be back next year no problem. But I feel like there's teams where you believe that. I don't believe it with the Calgary Flames.

They lost a shootout last night, right? That's what eliminated them. But they also lost to the Blackhawks last week. They lost to the Canucks on Saturday in a shootout. Can't happen. This perpetually happened all year where they lost games they shouldn't have lost. And eventually, when you lose so many one-goal games, it's not because you're unlucky. It's because you can't pull out one-goal games.

and you don't have the level of compete or the level of skill or just the goal scoring or the goal tending, whatever is what your problem is, because there's a bunch of problems with Calgary Flames, it's all of those things that compound you to be unlucky and not win these games. Eventually, it's not just luck. It's you lack the skill and the talent to win the game.

How about this? Give the Flames eight more points. Or no, not eight. Give them four more points during the playoffs. Yes. So you could add four more, five more, six more overtime losses to the record. They'd be fine. And the way you get those points is by not losing one goal games

because your goalie decided to take a stroll. I would like to know how many he had this year. it um just off the top of my head it like gun to my head like like gun to the earth actually gun to the earth yeah yes yeah aliens will eat you alive if you get this wrong minimum three well then you're in the play and i'm gonna say as many as six you're in the playoffs like you gotta billy bean this a little bit like what happens when we you know when they they're talking about stolen bases right so stop stealing bases so we because our percentage aren't good stay in your net the percentages aren't good like so i've i made the if you're

a goaltender 10 the goal thing a bit and because i've made it a bit like i actually have a decent idea of the goalies who kind of stink you gotta watch it every week to get the clips yeah you know who's who's surprisingly bad at it vasilevsky he he does it with like surprising regularity you know who uh i'm glad has stopped playing the puck as much elia samsonov is not the greatest at playing the puck. Neither is Matt Murray. Oh, boy. But those two.

No, Markstrom's one. He's one of one. I was going to throw Vasilevsky in there. There's a few other goalies who are really bad at it. Matt Murray usually stays between the posts when he's not knocking them off. Exactly. Yes.

Exactly. No, Markstrom is one of one. All right. But all those one-score games, if they had any high-end scoring, like Kadri and Huberto, they weren't one. They're set-up guys. They weren't what was advertised.

They didn't bring the point production. If they get any of those, maybe there's four more points in the standings. And they're not relying on – I forget his first name. Dewar, whatever his first name is, scoring the game winner in must-win games. I thought that was the clothing brand you were promoting. That was. Yeah, you used to go Jesse Blake 15% off. But to that point, Jesse, I think they did come as advertised,

but neither of them are finishers. They're not finishers. Huberto set the record for what last year? Assists. He still put up at least 30 goals. Yes, but when you're playing with Sasha Barkov, right, it's different. And I think that's where Calgary really, I think, lacked it this year. Because Kachuk was a genuine finisher.

Backlund's obviously still there. But it's just not. And also, the style that they play. They have a head coach who, it was like when Tortorella took over in Vancouver. It's like, okay, now the Sedins are going to block all the shots and win the Stanley Cup. no you're not the difference no you're not you don't have a coach that matches what your team is the difference is Tortorella had zero success in Vancouver Sutter won the division last year so I don't know where this team came from I don't like I know significant changes the changes they

made to me are not the difference between winning your division and not no they're not they're not it's depression I think that's set in on the players like like get him out of there he's got very openly hated playing hockey for at least a month now losing in five games to the oilers it was a peek into what they kind of were does it break your tiger a little bit it it breaks your brain yeah does it like does it does does a loss like that kind of break you i think we saw what the calgary they were in that moment like they went up against a team who was actually a stanley cup favorite and maybe all season long like we overrated the calgary fans yeah oilers weren't a cup favorite you know but after that performance getting to the western

conference finals we saw what the oilers truly were you know and the calgary flames they didn't match up like they couldn't compete with that team the flames began that series up if i'm not mistaken 6-2 in game one in the second period by the end of the second period if i'm not mistaken it was six five oilers tied it at the beginning of the third and i think the flames ended up winning at nine six and then they got they got reverse swept after and then they got reverse swept yeah it's like game one it's it's like we're all still living in that second period like it's since then it's been your best players leave everybody hates the head coach you sign the new guys you try and rebuild on the fly retool with the new fancy fancy guys and none of it

works cat okay losing kachuk and gadreau but replacing them with cadre and uh weger and huberdo and huberdo and then adding weger on top of that you shouldn't be missing the playoffs you shouldn't be missing the playoffs man they and all the games were they outshot their opponent and they loved out shooting and losing oh that was that's a calgary flame special i wonder how many of those games where they outshot their opponent and lost were because of score effects because they were losing early because marksman left the fucking net i'm gonna no i'm gonna ride this till he stops doing it stop it stop it i yeah it's a good i listen it's a good point killing your here's the other thing i want to bring your team and this is where again my my

issues all year i tweeted in november that that the flames needed a coaching change and flames fans got on me or whatever but like they played like shit then they played like shit since and what's hilarious now is flames reporters are talking about this is a great opportunity to start matt coronado and see what you have there right he's their new top prospect uh what are you sure you don't mean dustin wolf isn't it matt coronado am i wrong am i wrong i think i think he's one of their prospects but dustin wolf's their big goalie well i know but this is a guy that they yeah no this is this is a guy that they were going to try out in the last couple of games that they're super interested oh this guy yeah sorry i thought you were no i'm i've i've been on the dustin wolf

train so okay well who's who is this so matt coronado uh uh basically he's i'm pulling up his elite prospects page for anybody that wants to he's 20 years old uh he's he just signed with the flames he was the guy that when when he signed his entry-level deal flames fans were really excited and sutter's like never heard of him what wing uh he is a right wing left wing so he can play either um he's got he's got an offensive profile according to elite prospects i'll just read what they said he wants to have the puck on his stick and isn't afraid to court contact to make sure he's the one driving the bus for the line he's decisive manipulative and dexterous with his handler uh he's got a good shot for somebody who is constantly throwing pucks on the

net and his release is fast and versatile and how he gets pucks off he was recently in at harvard He had 36 points in 34 games, 20 goals. That is pretty good. So Matt Coronado was a guy that they've signed earlier this year. Sutter was like, I've never heard of him. And then Flames reporters are openly saying today that even though these last couple of games are a perfect time to get a guy like that in the lineup because it doesn't matter, Sutter still may not do that because he doesn't like young players. Pelletier comment earlier this year and just – It was a Pelletier.

Was that the one I was – am I mixing that up? I'm not sure. But either way. I'm not sure. You know, doesn't love young guys. Can you imagine this guy doesn't make it into the lineup? They've just signed him. I mean, do they need finishers or not?

You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't – I mean, I guess I could see them holding back and then his contract slides to next year, right? Isn't that true? No. That works?

Then he must have not played this year. He has not played. That's what I'm saying. Okay, so then he wasn't the guy Sutter was talking about then. Coriano must have only just signed his deal because if he had signed it earlier, he wouldn't have been eligible for NCAA. So I think it was Pelletier. Oh, it was Pelletier.

Either way. But then it's more than one guy. Well, then it's doubly better. Right, right, right. Dustin Wolfe is the one I get hung up on because he's the best. He might be the best goalie not playing in the NHL. yeah now that devin levi is up fuck yeah so he looks great how is buffalo not mathematically out yet put some respect on the sabers they're still not mathematically out still in this and

levi's gonna drag him in i don't know goalies man i mean florida gives up devin levi uh levi as a throwaway in a deal and uh they don't miss him because alex lion decided to play the best hockey of his career at 31 sure definitely goalies they're totally normal it's watch lion's gonna be like the the next tim thomas where he sticks around for long enough where like tim thomas had to be good for like a year and a half before we were all like is he just good yeah is he actually nobody believed yeah nobody believed it no because he shouldn't have been yeah the dude was drafted by the nordiques duane rolandson was like that too i think he was one of the oldest like rookie of the year candidates ever he was like 27 or something it's like he

up better as he is yeah he it was crazy um uh separately from that the flames were hanging their hopes on hopefully the san jose sharks are doing anything which they did not but carlson did get his 100th point as a defenseman he is the sixth ever to do it i got a problem with some of the norris discourse about eric i get that there are better defensemen in the national hockey league adam fox is fucking unreal kale mccarr is the best defenseman in national hockey league skill But if a guy puts up 100 points and it's been done six times in the history of the entire league, just give him the fucking Norris Trophy. Who cares if he's bad defensively? People who vote on best defensemen.

But it's fine. He did something that's so extraordinary on one end that there can be a little, hey, he's not that great on the defensive end. His team is really ass. But the 100 points, that round number is so special. he can't not win the norris his first season without brent burns those two were not meant to be on the same team together i uh not enough puck no i grossly underestimated that when that trade happened i was like oh look they have the best right side no man uh those are both well at least at the time of the trade those are both number one options they're not top pair

options those are number one options you can only have one i think i think the leafs leaf fans sort of saw that in a way like a way reduced way with uh morgan riley and tyson barry his because morgan riley was coming off a 72 point season yeah and they're like we need tyson barry we yeah well they wanted to get there it was a little lost with morgan and then they they took morgan off the top power play so they could get tyson barry going you know what it was like uh Look how good of a fit Barry's been in Nashville. Yeah, great fit. Perfect with Yossi.

Well, Yossi's been out. So he's been a great fit as a dude filling in, basically. And speaking of filling in, I forgot to get to this because I was too busy ranting about Calgary. Have you looked at the roster Nashville is doing this with? It's pretty thin. Who are these people? I know.

So they had two goals yesterday. Both of them featured a player getting their first career point. Igor Afanaseyev got his first goal heading into that game in 16 NHL games. Zero goals, zero assists, zero points. And then Jake Markstrom goes, here you go, pal. Gives just puck right to him. Buries it. There's your first career point.

And on the second goal, I can't remember who scored it, but Jake Livingstone, cousin of Drew. Is he actually? No, I made that up. Oh. Zach Sanford scored. Zach Sanford, thank you, with his second goal of the season. I looked this up.

There were four goals in that game. One was some guy's first, another was some guy's second, and another was some guy's third. And then there was Backlund with his 19th. But Afanaseev and Livingstone both got their first career point in that game. Like, they're just a bunch of children and journeymen. Yeah. and they sold hard with a capital S at the deadline,

they're still in it. It doesn't make sense. Tyson Berry leads them in time on ice, right? He's their big defenseman. Yossi's out. Who's second in time on ice for the Nashville Predators? Actually, Ryan McDonough's up there too. He's second.

Who's third in time on ice for the Nashville Predators? Is it a defenseman? It is a defenseman. I don't even know who plays defense with them all the time. It is not a defenseman. It's a forward. Ryan Johansson. It's a forward.

Can't be Matt Duchesne, can it? He doesn't kill penalties. Centerman. Is it Tanner Glass? You didn't even get his name right. His name's Cody Glass. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I got the wrong one last. He scored last night, too. I'm so brutal. You got Mr. Glass wrong. Is it Cody Glass? Cody Glass. So I was right and wrong. Yeah.

Was he not? He didn't score last night, no. I thought he did. Was he a pick of the Vegas Golden? Yes. Yeah. Cody Glass played 23 minutes and 25 seconds, led all forwards for the Nashville Predators in ice time.

Probably in the NHL. Tanner Glass. Tanner Glass. Just as good, I hear. I don't know how they're doing this. I don't either. It's UC Soros, obviously. Like, he's a big reason they're doing this.

But, like, you got to score a couple. You got to score. And that's why they got Trennan and Tyson Berry and Cody Glass. Big team. They lost. Tomasino. Tomasino's on that team. So, if Winnipeg wins tonight, it's over.

But if they don't and Nashville wins its final two games and Winnipeg loses its final two games, because that's essentially what it comes down to, Nashville's in. Now, I'm looking at the Western Conference, and it would be kind of cool don't you think if the edmonton oilers could win their last couple of games finish tops in the conference and take on the nashville predators in the first round oh don't think it hasn't occurred to me because they're i mean it's probably not going to happen because vegas is that far ahead and and vegas fans probably feel super disrespected because

we've been talking about edmonton so much but edmonton sort of they're goofy it's crazy i would love to see an edmonton nashville first round would love to see it so on the topic of the jets and i'm gonna i'm gonna link this to the penguins life's not fair and i'm gonna prove it the penguins are fighting for their playoff lives for a wild card spot yeah the jets are fighting for their playoff lives for a wild card spot they both have two games left if i'm not mistaken the penguins last two games are against the chicago blackhawks and the columbus blue jackets i'm pretty sure they're like one and two in the league for worst teams they're both bottom five the winnipeg jets have to play the wild in minnesota oh not easy in the avalanche in colorado

so that's possible dude that sucks that sucks so much and the penguins too like they control their own destiny in this whole thing yeah so the penguins just go two and oh they're in the playoff so you don't think sydney crosby can just go two and oh and make the playoff oh man and oh man did the isles bottle it yep they got crushed by the caps i can't believe that so the problem with the islanders is they can't come back because they can't score so you get down three nothing game's over everybody go home leave the arena it's like the flames of the east yeah the islanders they don't have enough scoring and like that's been their detriment and going down 3-0 to the Caps.

Do they have Barzal back yet? No. I don't think he didn't play last night, no. I think they make the playoffs in a walk if they have Barzal, but they don't. So I want to ask you guys something. What is league average save percentage this year? What do you guess? Like 906.

Mississauga, 905. 905, I like that. The league average save percentage. Maggie liked that. Margaret liked that. Margaret, lovely Margaret's in the corner. Thanks, Megan. the uh the save percentage for the league this year is 899 no way league average yes

wow there are only you're mad you should have put a thousand dollars on your matmer oh i know i mean i like to be two dollars steve responsible sports interaction did not they didn't do a good job with that one yeah it was 920 right yeah well matt murray he had i think like a 923 or something at the time dude it should have been a will matt murray win the vesna trophy which fucking no there are 14 teams in the nhl with a nine up in front of their safe percentage only 14 so two teams at least going into the playoffs this year will have a less than 900 save percentage the oilers are among them they have an 899 they have a league average save percentage and which is weird to say stewart skinner was an all-star yes so jack campbell has struggled yeah so a little the top

team in the league save percentage wise is obviously the boston bruins yes what is their team save percentage oh it's stupid 928 that would be stupid so i don't think it's that high 925 it's 930 oh my god shit the next closest i will give you the next closest team it's like if the hashik sabers could score holy it's crazy no no let us guess okay what do you think number two is not don't give me the percentage yet give me the team first second highest save percentage in the league both conferences save for team save percentage both conference oh so but an eastern team and a western team who aren't the bruins it can be either be anybody in the league but the bruins there are 31 teams to choose from who's after a bad start georgia has been really

good for Colorado it's not right Colorado so you're saying Colorado Jesse the New Jersey Devils not the New Jersey Devils Colorado is fifth New Jersey is 11th oh the Minnesota Wilder number two oh oh and they've been very good now Gustafson now hey and and Mark Andre noted the other guys yeah hey what is he he's a what noted Alan Wall's client he has actually been sick so Lately. What is. We should talk about Allen later. What is.

Yes, we should actually get a great episode coming out. Nah. Nah. Number two. Minnesota Wild. What's their team save percentage? Knowing that Boston was 930. The league average is 899.

Where's Minnesota? 16. 9. 14. God, I wish one of you had picked the number in the middle. 915. Well done, guys. Well done.

I didn't want to Price's right you. And I'm going to give you the top 10 teams. I know. I should have. These are the best team save percentage teams in the league. Hey, I'll give you the top 10. No, we're not going to guess. We're not going to guess this.

Here's the top 10. Can we guess number three? Okay, we're going to guess all 32 teams in order or no one leaves. Can we guess number three? You can guess number three, and it's the same save percentage as the Wild. Same team save percentage. They also have a 9-15. The Carolina Hurricanes.

No, but they're up there. No, they're not, actually. They're 14th. Oh. They're not up there. They're middle of the pack. They have the most shutouts in the league, though, strangely. Islanders?

Islanders. Ah! Let's go. Oh, yeah. And then followed by the Nashville Predators. Of course. Nice. Colorado Avalanche.

Winnipeg's got to be up there. Dallas Stars. New York Rangers. Vegas Golden Knights. No. Winnipeg Jets. And number 10, your Toronto Maple Leafs. Yes.

With a 9-0-8. Pretty wild, eh? That Boston's that far ahead. Like, it's just a crazy year. Congrats to them. 63 wins. All-time record. They did it.

No, they got a couple games left. Tack on a few. The history of the four major sports has been that the team that has the most wins ever never wins the championship. So, it's a curse. Seattle Mariners, I think it was. They lost the MLB. Tom Brady

You brought that up A couple weeks ago That was a crazy year In football I loved it Oh yeah They lost to the Giants There

NBA Like Eli Manning Brady versus Eli Manning Like come on Oh yeah Come on Twice Two times

Two times NBA is the Golden State Warriors The Down Up 3-1 to LeBron Like Draymond

Draymond decides To get kicked out Changes the whole series LeBron does the Unbelievable comeback They had the most wins Ever regular season And then the

Tampa Bay Lightning they lost so the record for the Lightning I think is the most points ever I thought the Red Wings had that or no

the Red Wings had the most wins wins ever they won the Stanley Cup they lost too but if you go they didn't win the Cup that year

so they lose that year they lost in the Western Conference to Colorado oh yeah so yeah most wins ever the Lightning and the Red Wings

they both lost so if history says anything it's that Boston doesn't give a shit about your history and they're gonna win another fucking championship

who knows that fucking city with all their goddamn rings He's so sick of their shit. Listen, it's the playoffs, and you play the games for a reason. I just can't picture them losing four out of seven. Well, at least not to their first-round opponent, who is like currently it's going to be.

It's going to be Pittsburgh, I think. I mean, Columbus should not have beaten Tampa. If the Islanders sneak in, the Islanders give them a hard time. Pittsburgh. I know it's going to be Pittsburgh, but it is in Pittsburgh's hands. In all honesty, we should all be rooting for the Sabres, but it's very unlikely. That's true. It would be cool.

Out of, I mean, the Sabres are a long shot. So if they make it, I mean, they're hot and everything. But out of the three teams that have been in that battle for a while, the Panthers, the Islanders, and the Penguins, I think the Islanders at least give them a hard time. i think the panthers soften them up panthers are a tough team yeah but still probably losing like five the penguins i'm just not i'm a huge sydney crosby believer but the rest i think the rest fucking slapped you don't like tristan jari he is one of the most mystifying goaltenders in the

league to me he's either the best or he's the worst yeah man like every time i watch the highlights i'm like oh that wasn't a good goal that wasn't a good goal either and i look at his numbers and they're good i think it's the rest of the team that the the penguins don't know what they want to be and like honestly um they're soft when you look at how hextal and burke in their previous jobs were the flyers didn't know what they wanted to be and the flames didn't know what they want it to be so now they got them both under one roof and and not the team still doesn't know what it wants to be it almost fired two draft picks to the uh to to the canucks for jt miller who had a fight last night did you guys see that no he squared up and had a fight it was good he

in he when he's actually dialed in is like the perfect hockey player yeah it's just he so often is and i'm sure on pittsburgh he would have been and will be this offseason when they inevitably Yeah, I don't think a lot of people are happy with the job that Hextall's done so far in Pittsburgh. And, like, I can't really blame them. Oh, I'm kind of surprised that a team managed by Brian Burke and Ron Hextall, like, is a team that, like, Brian Burke and Ron Hextall could probably beat in a fight now. Oh, if Ron Hextall gets on the ice, he's instantly the most violent player for the Penguins. Yeah. No, no.

Evgeny Malkin exists. Oh, yeah, you're right. He's going to cut your legs Thank god that guy plays hockey Imagine he was just walking around In normal society We'd all be in danger But after Malkin

The stick bandit He strikes again Comes out of alleys Right across both angles Nice bag of groceries It's definitely not Your toughest hockey team They're not

I'm with you Steve Like, Brian brought in Hexdahl, right? I think they brought him in. I don't think so. Maybe. I'm not sure. Yeah, no, I got to just do a quick Google. But, like, that's a situation where I could see Brian bringing in somebody else.

It's a situation where I could see the Penguins at the draft going, to quote Calvin and Hobbes, Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey. I could see them fucking making some huge moves. i think they probably will and they gotta go for it i do think if the islanders get in guys of all the teams that we mentioned florida obviously the island pittsburgh buffalo they're the team that give boston the hardest time the islanders that there's no question they can't score but you don't need to to win in the playoffs honestly and you know you've got they're just you know here's what it is boston still probably probably wins in five

i just i don't see every taking longer than five shift every period sucks yeah and what what as leaf fans we need is a to beat tampa b we need boston to not feel so fucking good about themselves because if you can at least at least put that door open just a little bit on the doubt meter just a little bit that's all you need no we need them to play the softest option and here's why okay supposedly so it's like so it's like calgary edmonton last year in the second round or what i can't remember where i saw the stat but a team coming off a sweep i saw this too has beaten or sorry a team coming off a sweep has lost to a team coming off a seven game series six out of the last seven times yeah it's like uh it's like an 85 hit rate i want to was that

mike johnson i forget i can't remember it was i can't tweet or something like that yeah the teams that sit around they don't do well in the playoffs and boston i think has had so much success this season because of how engaged they've been yeah and i mean practice you really think that's gonna be a problem for these guys i mean no but i'm trying to talk historically historically it has been though it has i don't know it's hard again like i guess i'm jumping off steve here but it's hard to bet against that um against that experience with the penguins the uh mario and ron burke i believe the two co-owners who kind of oversee the penguins they brought in hexie burkle might be it's burkle yeah burkle sorry uh they brought in burke and hexal at the same time

so they were named gm and president at the same time so i could see a situation just seeing how hexal's done the job so far burke going to going to mr lemieux and being like hey i want to bring in my guy i don't know i don't know okay so um jeff merrick is tweeting as of six minutes ago leaf's mystery goaltender may be matt anuska of the windsor spitfires kyle cushman retweeted him and said matt anuska had a 898 save percentage in 33 games for windsor uh he's a waterloo native three postseason games for these spitfires and they were shockingly swept by kitchener in the first round oh yeah we never talked about that story um that was extremely rare i mean kitchener and with and windsor have had some unbelievable playoff battles back and forth uh this was uh

this was kitchener getting one up on them yeah kitchener where they were supposed to be a lot better than they were in this regular season like coming into this season kitchener was supposed to be a better team and then they finished eighth in the conference they go up against windsor it's an eight verse one obviously but it was a little underrated team and that shane wright like that's that's the big thing is is what is why it was a big deal is shane wright this whole back and forth all year you know windsor trades the entire farm of of eight-year-old draft picks that they have you know the kids the kids 20 years from now who can be drafted they trade all those picks to acquire shane wright and then you get swept you know it's fucking devastating

for him and now he's got to go play in the ahl if i'm not mistaken when uh taylor hall before he He was drafted, and the Windsor Spitfires won the Memorial Cup. The next year, they played Jeff Skinner's Kitchener Rangers in the OHL playoffs. Skinner's Kitchener Rangers were up 3-0 in the series. Windsor came back and won and won the Memorial Cup. They've had some battles, Windsor and Kitchener. Well, anyway, should be interesting to see if that actually ends up happening.

On the OHL news, also, Conor Bedard. I'm just going to that. It's in my lineup For goodness sakes I was actually going to go to the women's worlds next But if you would like to go to Conor Bedard We're literally talking about the OHL playoffs Then Conor Bedard sucks and they got eliminated

Is he Moving on He is all of a sudden bad Could he drop to the third round and the Leafs get him You know what Is that the first time the Leafs draft I don't know They got the Bruins pick

They have a first round pick Here's the thing. Seven games in the series. It's crazy that they lost to the Blades like 4-1. He had 20 points in that series. In the series? Are you sure? Pretty sure.

Pretty sure. What's the number? Conor Bedard. You guys are making me recheck everything. You shut your mouth when you're talking to me. No, but that would have mean they scored 20 goals in five games and they lost? In seven games, he had 20 points. I was right.

He had 10 goals and 10 assists. And they lost 4-1. Okay, please show me the rest of the team. Well, I guess we'll have to look up Regina Pats. I didn't know it was a seven-game series. I thought it was a five-game series. Well, so first off... Oh, they don't have the playoff stats.

They don't have the playoff stats. Well, that's a bit of a... Why does HockeyDB not have that? Okay, Regina Pats. Hold on, I'll just look it up. Holy shit. He's so fucking good. He's crazy good.

What day is it? May 8th? Lottery day? I think so. Dude, this guy, well. Okay, so Stanislav Sovil had 13 points in seven games. Alexander Sudzaleev? Did they lose every game 10-6?

Yeah. They actually had, there was a lot of guys with a lot of points. in a seven game series he outscored his closest teammate by seven yes he was the player of the week he had four goals and sorry he had in four games he had 11 points uh he was he's just crazy crazy wow now i don't know if this is wise for him given that he's i mean he's going to be the first overall pick but also nothing he does is going to change that like canada for the men's world championship like forget every professional hockey player who's available that might be your number one center oh yeah what an alien i don't think he wanted it like right now it's probably

the mindset go get ready for the draft you know yeah let's go get ready for a training camp kind of thing you know take some time after now he's gonna have to now this is this is this is your last summer of your life where you're not gonna be an nhler like well he's never had a burger He's never had a burger in his life, so it's not like he's going to go have fun. He doesn't have to have a burger for another 40 years. No, I guess not. But it's wild to me that you could have points like that and still lose. But then I think about Connor McDavid in the OHL final versus the Jennys,

and you were there, were you not? Five games. Five games. Yeah, I remember Dylan Strom getting upset. Travis Derbitt was on that team, I thought. I think he was. What happened? They lost in five to Oshawa, but Dylan Strom got upset

because they asked about him, like, were you playing Hurt? Because he was such a non-factor, and he insists that he wasn't. But they were triple-teaming McDavid. Right. Like, and just leaving everyone else completely just wide open. Were you at the clinching game? I was at the clinching game. Did they let you on the ice?

They did. Yeah, I took some pictures. um uh ken appleby the who was the the goalie of the of the gens and i got a nice picture of him and sean mckenzie and a few other people and uh yeah i got on the ice nice yeah i couldn't get into the mcdavid scrum it was it was too big what a surprise it was too big yeah um isn't that the year two he got into like a fight and broke his broke his wrist or something like that wasn't there something yes it is uh his hand his hand yeah he fought someone on like january missed and he hit, I think, the lip of the boards.

And I know, right? Brutal. Broke his hand. Why is Conor McDavid fighting ever? And it really hurt his draft stock. Yeah, man. Bummer didn't work out for him, eh? Whatever happened to that guy?

We might go Eichel now. If you missed it, Canada and the United States had a absolute classic. Which is weird. That never happens. The Leafs game ended in OT. John Tavares scored that. And then you flip over and the USA Canada was heading right into three-on-three OT.

It was perfect timing. Women's world. So to kind of set it up, you know, Canada's up at the end of the first. And then Hilary Knight scores a controversial goal. And it's controversial because Canada challenged for an offside. But they couldn't get on camera whether or not she was offside. By the way, Hilary Knight was 1,000% offside because when you actually look at it, she's like three feet over the blue line when the pass comes. But it doesn't matter because if you didn't get it on camera, it counts.

Yeah. It is what it is. At least, and I'm a completely biased Canadian fan, but she was 1,000% offside, but you can't call it back, which was the right thing. I'm glad they did the right thing. And then USA scores with like a second to go. Overtime solves nothing.

And they both score off the top in the shootout. And then they go nine more rounds. And former guest of Noxian Cacks. Woo! Jamie Lee Rattray. Scores in the shootout. It was like, it was a crazy move too. Crazy move.

Canada and the U.S. have a long history of crazy moves clinching the shootout. So I'm glad Canada came out on top on this one. You know, the one thing I have not seen this time, and I'm so grateful for it. An American gold medal. Oh, I hate an American gold medal, especially at the expense of Canada. But every time there would be a classic, like immediately following the 2010 Olympics, when they're like, wow, we heard Haley Wickenheiser gets on the mic. We heard they had our flag on the floor in their dressing room, which apparently was not true.

but i don't care it's enough that she believed it but yeah it's enough that she believed right we were talking about that earlier i don't care it was great it was great but immediately following that you had some bum writer who had nothing else to write about that day say uh you know should should women's hockey even be in the olympics there's really only two teams they're always in 2002 someone wrote 2010 10 10 that happens all that happened every single time And what we did not see yesterday, what we did not see yesterday was somebody writing some bullshit article like that. Do you know that the Olympics almost got rid of women's hockey legitimately because of that? They had real discussions about it.

In 2010, the final was a 2-0 Canadian victory where Shannon Zabados had to stand on her head. Yes. It was close. Yes. I guess the argument is not, it's not close. There's nobody else. That's stupid. It's a stupid argument.

But I'm so glad nobody's made that argument. It's just, what a great game. And Debian was amazing in that. Look how the other countries have come on since then. The one thing I got a problem with this fucking tournament is – What grants your gears, Jesse Blake? They're hosting the medal round game still in Brampton. And I thought they would have moved it to a bigger venue.

I thought, okay, we get to the bigger games. They couldn't do it, I guess, because of the scheduling because you can't book Scotiabank for a date when the Raptors and Leafs might be in the playoffs. I get that. It's kind of taken. But there's so many arenas around the GTA that hold more than, I think it's like 5,000 that they got.

That Hamilton one is going to— It's not the greatest building. The one they're building right now, the Oakview Group, the one they're in the plans for, they're the same people that built Seattle and I think Vegas as well. They are building an arena in southern Ontario. And everybody keeps telling me there's no way that there's an NHL team that's going in there even though it's a closed door like you said it's a closed roof 20 000

person arena definitely not going to be another nhl team in southern ontario see i was i was thinking of all these buildings uh it's an international tournament though so you got people flying in from here there and everywhere and then you don't want them to have to take like an hour hour and a half drive uh after that maybe even longer i mean brampton's i don't know 20 minutes from the airport yeah i just think yes so i don't know i just checked it's 5 000 seats yeah you know i wish i wish they held like the big canada u.s game at a place that could support 15 000 i agree with you that was my only hiccup with the way the women and i think it's it's time for another arena it's time for like in the gta cops is old right cops in hamilton is like was

built in the late 70s for a hamilton nhl team that never came um it's time for a new arena and And the thing is that Scotiabank Arena, even if the Leafs and Raptors weren't in the playoffs, it's booked 320 nights a year. So the chances of you being able to just get in there on a snap, it's impossible. So it is time. They could use another one. What was the one we went to when we saw Eric Young? Paramount Fine Food Center in Mississauga. That's right.

Now, how many do you think are in that? Is that not like 10,000? Oh, my gosh. That's the same thing. That's Steelhead's building. What's Coca-Cola called? A couple thousand. It's probably 3,000 or whatever.

Like where the Marlies plays. seven seven something yeah yeah see like that would be nice but again it could have been play even that like it's two thousand i would have liked to see it in a in a major league i'm with you i'm with you it's canada usa it's women's worlds it feels it feels a little small and i agree in five thousand and in a town like this it would sell in a heartbeat right uh so anyway and i'm i'm just assuming it's going to be canada usa in the finals like i'm jumping to a lot wow what happens when you assume jesse makes an ass out of you and me that's right Jinx Canada is what happens.

Can't wait for the U.S.-Finland final after I made my cheeky little comment. A couple things I just want to – or last two things I want to mention. If we're going to do a press conference, we can move to that. Last night was the first time in NHL history where two players got 1,000 points, got hit 1,000 points on the same night. The first one was Claude Giroux. Oh, yeah. Timmy Stutzel, he dove for a goal this time, which is crazy.

and uh joel gallagher really fucked up the perception of that guy no but joe pavelski i mean did brandon gallagher or did tim so slow completely deserve everything that's coming to him with the diving a little uh uh joel pavelski got his on the same night as well so not not bad not bad pretty cool for a guy who's pretty revered uh it feels like joe pavelski's still had an underrated career he has and i i always go back to this moment in time he's he's like a hall of famer if he scores on that scott niedermeyer giveaway in the gold medal game in 2010 all of history changes uh he is the devil he was a devil was he not pavelski pavelski no what was he at it was san jose yeah why did i say no yeah if he yeah you're

if he scored he would be for sure yeah oh 100 yeah Niedermeyer gave it away Pavelski wasn't able to bury it on Lou and within 30 seconds Canada won the gold medal same shift no whistle I wrote about it in the book I was I was like I was thinking about it so there would have been a little celebration and then he probably would have had his gold medal uh and gone on I think it was jimmy kimmel with uh the guest he would have been on with was sarah palin that's quite the guest like i was just i was just picturing how much history would change she had a moment wow she hit she certainly did and joe pavelski would have as well oh yeah he didn't bury it uh one last thing uh the nhl's digitally enhanced uh

Dasher boards were nominated for a 2023 sports Emmy. What? That's, that's old though. Right. As of 16 minutes ago. Why? Cause they won some other award too.

Oh, did they? Yeah. Well, this is like the Emmys are like the television awards, right? In the States. Okay.

Okay. I watched a player disappear behind the boards yesterday. Emmy. That's an Emmy disappearing player to you, sir. Oh dear. Do we want to do the press conference quick? Yeah.

Let's do it. This is from Hipster underscore Crayon. Good name on Twitter. Good name. They asked, what's the best cheese on a cheeseburger? Oh. Oh. I don't think you overthink this, man.

Cheddar. I like a sharp cheddar. But in second place is a nice Havarti. Yeah. Havarti on a burger might change your life. Yeah. It's delish. Or cheese curds.

You ever tried cheese curds on a burger? Like melt them onto the burger? Yeah. I don't know. I'm skeptical of that. You don't like cheese curds? Why are you skeptical of that? On a burger?

Oh, yeah. I don't know. Let them melt in. We're complicating burgers here. Fresh, oily cheese that squeaks when you chew on it. What about good old American cheese, like Kraft Singles? Well, that's cheddar. American cheese is cheddar.

Yeah. No. Kraft Singles, though. you put the cheese curd into the patty no I wouldn't do that what are you doing no no

I'm making a delicious because because the cheese you have to put a cheese in there that isn't gonna melt that's what like that's why you put like a feta in that because it doesn't melt

like that but it's got some like I'm telling you put it on top put it on top change your life feta on a lamb burger oh yes

absolutely or goat cheese on a lamb burger yep goat cheese on a turkey burger goat cheese is delicious better on a lamb burger you do cranberry goat cheese turkey burger patty trust me is that what you cranberry cranberry cranberry is amazing so cranberry

goes on anything it's just super good yeah i don't got that right thank you jesse and but that's all you're doing is making stuffing it's a thanksgiving burger like you literally you've bred cranberry and turkey yeah you just you just made stuffing with turkey with and it took 20 minutes rather than four hours so much better served by someone with a buckle on their hat yeah and shoes that kind of curl at the end yeah like an elf and lamb that's not theirs all right so this is from uh this is from carlos uh c mommer do you think the world would be safer if adam was in charge of nuclear weapons given that he cannot enter the right password in his pc he sure as hell would not enter the nuclear codes correctly awesome so that might be true

actually the great thing is between his yacht and seasoned seats adam knows numerous world leaders um so if they ever told him the passwords he'd forget them so maybe adam would end all global conflict because you would just forget every password well i would uh i could bluff i could really bluff but yeah when it came down to it even if i made the decision for a tactical nuclear strike we couldn't pull it off and then i think that's that's a good thing to have yeah adam could definitely bluff b-l-u-f is it f underscore fuck yeah jesse yeah this is from miro miro for norris what's the most aesthetically pleasing to watch a great goal a great pass or a great save

i'm trying to imagine good question trying to imagine steve at the 2010 olympics final when Niedermeyer gives the puck up to Joel Pavelski. On my end of the ring, too. The terror of watching Pavelski go in unencumbered and then the relief of Luongo making the save. I've always been a save guy. I feel like that would have been fever pitch intensity. Oh, it was insane.

Nike wanted me to tweet during that. that's that's back when you had to text your tweets to twitter oh yeah yeah do you remember that two one two one two send yeah yeah fucking wow yeah we used to do that yeah um and yeah i just remember we all shot ourselves i am still every now and then i find a uh a video from the stands in that game that i haven't seen yet because i'm i just want and hope with all my heart that someone got me oh but because of where i was sitting i was so high up and i was so in the corner that it's very unlikely the only chance i would have is this if someone behind me and like to my right was shooting down at crosby in the corner right because crosby was on when when

McGinley falls down. He disappeared behind the boards on my side of the ice. Fuck. I just want to relive that moment. I think a save in overtime would be crazy. But, like, again, I remember freaking out over the Crosby goal. I remember being in a bar and just losing. Everybody lost their minds.

I was at the game. I was at a bar for the game where the Leafs came back and scored, like, four goals in two minutes against the Columbus Blue Jackets. That was nuts, too. I don't know. It's a tough one. I had to be quiet for that because Leo was like, I'm on hold.

Right. So I was like, ah! Crazy. This is from 40 underscore helmy. I'm getting a cat soon. Name suggestions? Do you want it to be like leaf related? They said can be leafs related, Pokemon, et cetera.

So I think they're open to anything. Cathu-nise. Oh! Or Austin Cathu's. cat trick cat trick well that's good i like animals that have uh like just plain people names like i like a dog named jared you know or like a cat named melissa well our cat's name is theodore teddy yeah that's funny but it's theodore that's hilarious that's a good time frank yeah like your dog named frank what's the most like i'm shooting on the floor of all the

Of all the names on the Leafs, what's like the oldest old man name? Mark, technically. Not like that, though. Marcus is a good name for a cat. I mean, John isn't exactly in vogue right now. Right. John's like fairly on the way down. It's pretty ubiquitous, yeah.

It's on the way down. There's the whole Bible support on that. There's a lot of Johns out there. Not as many as there used to be. You're sticking to that. Leo was not in daycare with a lot of John. If you call him by his full name and not Willie, William is very regal and old.

It's a very old English name. You reminded me of an old story. I don't remember if I've told this a thousand times on the show, but you'll tell me. Probably. When you said like... I got like three stories. Frank said...

Shut up. When you said Frank stopped shitting on the carpet, ever tell you about my neighbors and their dog? No. This is a new one. so here you go so when when i was growing up this is uh my parents house we had a family on one side that was macedonian and a family on the other side that was filipino this is important to the story because the macedonian family had a dog a very misbehaved dog named lola okay lola would always

get lost lola would always chew stuff lola would always bark at everything and they were constantly saying lola stop that lola oh lola pooped all over the place where's lola has anyone seen lola and you would always hear the filipino neighbors laughing from their backyard because lola means grandma oh that's funny oh grandma got out again has anyone seen grandma it's like they're yelling grandma shit on the floor grandma enough in that's amazing I like that so you just hear

Lola so here's your cat name ready I was thinking about it while he was telling that story oh Adam wasn't listening no no I was listening

Pauston Pauston Cathy's there it is you're garbage that was totally worth not listening that was great

I want you to go to bed feeling like a failure I think I'd heard that story too I knew that story fuck there you go I know all his stories I hate when I do that

we can end on end on a special shout out to uh tim mccallough today's the last day of tim and friends is it that's a that's a show that in its first incarnation tim and tim and sid you know there's a lot it's very near and dear to our hearts and as it transitioned over tim and friends it was it's a it's a last um kind of television of sports that's moving away from uh tv in canada you know so it's sad to see it go but um he's gonna do amazing things over at sportsnet central because the content that tim has created over the years has always kind of hit in some way so i'm excited to see what that is but yeah last last

episode here uh today they're doing it live from the rogers center for the jays uh jays opening and opening day rest in peace uh daytime sports talk in this country it's such a shame yeah um it's why we have it's why we're able to exist though to be honest you know what that's what this needed a depressing angle well i i i but what steve jesse mentioned it like we used to we grew up with like you know we had tim and sid before and before that was landsberg and like we you know we had all those shows. It's such a bummer, but Tim is going to kill it.

I mean, you could see the look on my face. Like I'm, I'm depressed about it. Yeah. But he's got another show and he's going to kill it the way he always does. And I love that they kept the whole crew. That was cool too.

Yes. Love that. Yep. So good for them. Jesse, any Tim McAuliffe memories to share before we go? Um, your favorite Tim McAuliffe memory.

Favorite. Cause you worked on the show. Yeah. Yeah. Favorite Tim McAuliffe memory. oh man i don't know if i have one in particular i one thing um one thing tim doesn't get enough credit for i'll say this is how um athletic he is oh really yeah like what because because sid sid was never the athletic amongst the two what tim's the more athletic guy but tim's got

some like real skills like you'll so on the set on the tim and said set there's a whole bunch of sports stuff all the time and there's one there's one uh shot they always use uh one replay of him hitting the the basketball shot over his over his shoulder so that's real that's real 100 percent and like there's there's a hockey stick on set always handling always playing it that dude that dude grew up playing sports at like a high high level like high school level and it still carries like in in his in his elder years what's his uh he still has it and it's it's very impressive to see him just like play with a football what is he best at uh sports hosting other than that in terms of what like what would be his best sport if he if we're like tim you can play one

pro game in any sport of your choosing what do you think he's oh i have no idea probably because um he was a really decent uh football player like i don't know if he'd get out there like if it was amongst people of his vintage yes you know he'd probably be the best uh football player in his class wow great running back right now you know if he's playing a bunch of other guys in his age bracket probably an amazing running back did not know that love that well shout out to them that's cool and the new rogers center looks like fun too so uh i want to have beer and uh mystery meat there there's lots of the poutine hot dog thing that the chris johnson show has been oh man how are you how would you not try that by being a stick in the mud i like julian doesn't

want it right julian i can't believe he doesn't want that that's just him being like difficult difficult it's cheese and gravy no it's a hot dog oh i would i would definitely i would feel it later like i would need to take a tums beforehand but yeah you'd have some wars with the toilet yeah but damn it i'd enjoy it for the 30 seconds it took me to eat it it's like italians fainting when you put pineapple on pizza like what no just try a new thing right knock that off are you a pro pineapple on pizza guy no but i'm not anti yeah it's also it's not that serious no like that's my whole thing i don't know try a topping on a pizza if you like it you don't why are you going to war with this oh man because we're all stuck at home and it was the pandemic you know what i

just remembered when we went to the gins game no so someone there we went a couple times yeah oh yeah sorry well there was one gins game where someone in some sort of management uh in the building offered us free snacks and they had like and it was like an ice cream or no it was a waffle cone but it was filled with mashed potatoes and popcorn chicken oh you don't remember i remember that and i and i didn't eat it but i remember you ate it would i order that at a restaurant was it it wasn't mashed potatoes was it it was like a full like thanksgiving thing that's what it felt like or easter what what i went in the playoffs would i order that at a restaurant would i have that at a sport event just to say i did absolutely positively and was it worth it

well it was free so yeah all right well listen we're nine minutes late to a meeting we're supposed to have so why don't we wrap up the show i'm like 90 sure i have a photo of this of the popcorn yeah okay now we're 10 minutes late okay do you want me to pull it up just put it on the screen is it worth it put it up is it i gotta find it do they still sell it that's my question i don't know i doubt it no i think it was a one-time thing to be honest you were there the one time the one damn time so they still don't have a goalie huh no not as of the end of this i know all right cool i'll put it on screen i bet i bet get it after i bet kyle's pretty happy i bet he's having a pretty happy time with uh nhl right now can't wait for the lightning to pump

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